Erle Stanley Gardner

A spoiled woman is keen to keep news of her affairs from her powerful husband, even if it costs Perry his freedom when she swears he was on the murder scene.

A mistake at a murder scene dogs Perry while he tries to represent a woman taken in by a con man.

A bratty heiress wants to keep the news of her marriage a secret from the guardian who controls her purse strings, but when he's murdered, her groom is accused.

Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its...

After his employer dies in a fire, a caretaker hires Mason to allow him to keep his cat against the wishes of the men who inherit. When the caretaker is killed, Mason...

A woman claiming not to be a bride consults Mason about her 'friend' whose husband, long thought to have died in a plane crash, turns up alive.

When two men change bedrooms at a house-party, everyone thinks that the sleepwalker with the carving knife killed the wrong man.

The nervous Arthur Cartright came to Perry Mason about a neighbor s noisy dog that kept him too distracted to sleep at night. Mason thought the case almost too trivial to...

Peter Brunold had an unusual problem: his glass eye had been stolen the bloodshot one he wore for hangovers. And the thief had substituted a counterfeit eye! Fearing a...