Cocktails Coquettes and Cigarettes

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From 1933 to 1970 Erle Stanley Gardner thrilled readers with his gritty courtroom mysteries featuring one of the world's most well-known lawyers Perry Mason. For the readers who liked urban stories of blackmail murder deceit and a myriad of other vices the Perry Mason books delivered the goods. In addition the courtroom scenes in the series were both instructive and enjoyable written by a man who had been a lawyer and who had also studied and perfected the hard-boiled detective and mystery genre. This book is a fact-filled tour through all 82 of the Perry Mason mysteries with a special focus on the qualities that endeared them to so many readers of popular fiction: cocktails coquettes and cigarettes. Each book is classified in a rating system indicating the depth of those qualities to be found in the story plus details about the time period the TV show and much more.</span></p><p></p>