The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece

The Case of the Velvet Claws

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels—featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason—in striking trade paperback editions.

Married Eva Griffin has been... Read more »

The Case of the Sulky Girl

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

Her Uncle was healthy, but in order to get wealthy did she plot his demise? Is there evil in the heir?

Frances Celane has good reason to pout. Thanks to a provision in her late father’s will administered by her uncle, she’s caught in the middle of a family feud between matrimony and money. If she chooses marriage, she loses a million. But... Read more »

The Case of the Lucky Legs

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

Young Marjorie Clune’s best asset is her greatest misfortune: a pair of exquisite legs. They attract the perfect heel, a self-professed movie promoter named Frank Patton, whose scam seems even more flawless than Marjorie’s lissome limbs. When the hype clears, the local chamber of commerce is many dollars poorer, Marjorie’s been hung out to... Read more »

The Case of the Howling Dog

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Compared to a juicy murder trial, a case of feuding neighbors isn’t exactly Perry Mason’s cup of tea. But Arthur Cartright insists that Mason is the only one who can muzzle the howling hound that’s driving Cartright crazy. But Perry doesn’t realize just how crazy until he meets his client’s neighbor. Clinton Foley says Cartright is barking up... Read more »

The Case of the Curious Bride

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

After con man Greg Moxley married Rhoda Lorton, he took her money and flew—only to have his plane crash. Years later, Rhoda weds millionaire scion Carl Montaine. But now Moxley has turned up alive and well…with plans to pocket the Montaine fortune—or else make Rhoda’s bigamy public. Desperate to protect the good name of Montaine, Rhoda seeks out... Read more »

The Case of the Counterfeit Eye

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Blind man’s bluff…

Wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett has killed himself. There's a typewritten suicide note and three guns lying near his body. But for Perry Mason, that's evidence overkill. He knows there has been trouble in Bassett’s life. His wife wants out, his stepson hates him, an embezzler can't pay him back—and there's the man with a... Read more »

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

When the cat’s away the murderer will play.…

In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live…for life. But Laxter’s grandson Sam says the deal doesn’t include the caretaker’s cat—and he wants the feline off the premises by hook, crook…or poison. When Perry Mason takes the case, he quickly finds there’s much... Read more »

The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Who killed Philip Rease? Peter Kent was known to be a sleepwalker and a bloodstained knife was found under his pillow. There were people who would like to see Peter Kent out of the way, but would they frame him for murder? And would that explain the reason for Rease's death? It was another case full of traps for Perry Mason.

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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

Julia Branner insists her marriage was sabotaged by her millionaire father-in-law, who forced her to give up her baby girl for adoption. Now, years later, a young woman appears, claiming to be Julia’s long-lost daughter. But Julia insists the heir-apparent is a fake—and vows to keep the family fortune from falling into the wrong hands.

Abetted by... Read more »

The Case of the Dangerous Dowager

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

When Matilda Benson solicits the help of Perry Mason, her request seems simple enough: cruise to a gambling ship moored just beyond the twelve-mile limit and buy back the IOUs signed by Miss Benson's niece. But after Mason reaches the floating casino, he discovers problems aplenty—most notably the ship's owner with a bullet hole through his... Read more »

The Case of the Lame Canary

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

Do birds of a feather plot murder together?

The extraordinary Perry Mason never handles straightforward divorce cases, but this one is an especially strange bird. Rita Swaine is dating her sister’s ex-boyfriend. Her sister, Rosalind, is married to shady insurance adjuster Walter Prescott, who’s got dollar signs in his eyes and ice water in his... Read more »

The Case of the Substitute Face

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della Street, Perry Mason is approached by passenger who is worried about the wellbeing of her husband. Not long afterward, her husband is seen jumping off the ship, an apparent suicide—but when the body is recovered, it turns out that he was shot. Accused of murder, the wife... Read more »

The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

After her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Because a cache of valuable diamonds—left in Sarah’s care—has suddenly vanished into thin air.

Virginia thinks Sarah swiped the stones, but gem dealer Austin... Read more »

The Case of the Perjured Parrot

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Did Wealthy Fremont Sabin divorce his wife before his untimely death? That’s the multimillion-dollar question. And the right answer will mean a windfall for either the dead man’s angry son or headstrong widow. Each has accused the other of destroying Sabin’s will—and murdering Sabin. But with no document declaring to whom the affable eccentric... Read more »

The Case of the Rolling Bones

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

Unlucky in Love

Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to throw his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Milicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge.

Then Leeds escapes, only to end... Read more »

The Case of the Baited Hook

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

Who was that masked woman? That was the question plaguing Perry Mason. No one loves a good mystery more than Mason—but being asked to represent a client who is concealing her identity, not to mention the particulars of her case, has given even the legendary legal eagle a case of ruffled feathers. Yet the intriguing cloak-and-dagger tactics have... Read more »

The Case of the Silent Partner

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Successful florist Mildred Faulkner finds that the flower business is no bed of roses when arch-competitor Harry Peavis secretly buys stock in her small, family-owned business. To keep from being muscled out of her own company, Mildred goes to Perry Mason. But the legal eagle is stymied when Mildred's company is plundered by her brother-in-law... Read more »

The Case of the Haunted Husband

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

Aspiring actress Stephane Olger just wants to be in pictures. But she may end up in mug shots instead when she gets herself caught up in a crime. Shortly after quitting her job and moving to Hollywood, she is picked up by a well-dressed man while hitchhiking. The man loses control of the car and they end up in a horrible accident. Both Stephane... Read more »

The Case of the Empty Tin

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

A spanking-new tin can, secretly placed among the rows of Mrs. Florence Gentrie's preserves, contains not a speck of food—but it does carry one very damning clue to a murder that took place right next door. Such an unsavory discovery in such an unlikely place can't help but pique the curiosity of a dedicated mystery hunter like Perry Mason.

But... Read more »

The Case of the Drowning Duck

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Fowl play?

A dead man in the kitchen, gas fumes permeate the house, a duck seems to be drowning in the fishbowl, but it didn’t die. Maybe that fact has something to do with murder?

John L. Witherspoon, a wealthy patrician, is loath to let his daughter marry Marvin Adams, the son of a convicted murderer, something Marvin's mother managed to keep a... Read more »

The Case of the Buried Clock

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

After catching his shady son-in-law, Jack Hardisty, in the act of embezzling, wealthy banker Vincente Blane plans to hang him out to dry. Then murder turns Blane’s restful mountain retreat into Hardisty’s final resting place.

When the evidence points to wronged wife Millicent, her father makes a point of calling in Perry Mason. And it’s up to the... Read more »

The Case of the Crooked Candle

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Time and tide wait for no man—neither does Perry Mason.… A mystery in the best Gardner tradition chock full of action (mighty fast), angles (inventive and voluptuous), and aqua pura (meaning watertight solution as well as H20).

On his way to finding out, Mason meets Mrs. Milfield, a barely distraught widow, and a slew of suspicious characters all... Read more »

The Case of the Golddigger's Purse

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

In order to help her seriously ill boyfriend, gorgeous Sally Madison sets out to separate wealthy Harrington Faulkner from some of his money by offering him a cure for his ailing exotic fish, but her plan goes awry when the fish mysteriously vanish and Faulkner turns up dead.

“You want to consult me about a goldfish?”

Perry Mason couldn’t believe... Read more »

The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

In the dead of night, a thick fog lies over the black waters. You are aboard a fancy yacht full of fancy people who loathe one another. Suddenly you hear… A scream! A splash! A shot! The fateful cry, “Man Overboard!” And the next thing you know, you find yourself clutching a beautiful woman wearing only a flimsy nightgown. In her hands she holds... Read more »

The Case of the Vagabond Virgin

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

Platinum blonde Veronica Dale, is arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Yet, she has a hotel reservation in her name. Addison, head of a department store, booked the room for her and is now being blackmailed. Perry Mason can’t decide who is hiding what. Then comes murder—and one of Perry Mason’s toughest trials.

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The Case of the Cautious Coquette

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

When Perry Mason and Paul Drake ran the ad, all they were hoping for was a clue to the identity of a hit-and-run driver. The first reply looked suspicious. It said that the license number of the wanted car was written down in the notebook of a woman who could be out of her apartment from two to five on a certain afternoon, and a key to the... Read more »

The Case of the One-Eyed Witness

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

Perry Mason is dining peacefully at the Golden Goose cafe when he receives a mysterious phone call. The frantic woman on the other end of the line is desperate to retain Mason's services, but suddenly vanishes during their cryptic phone conversation.

The only clues: a newspaper clipping about a blackmail case, and the combination to a safe... Read more »

The Case of the Fiery Fingers

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

Poker-faced Nellie Conway, the nurses bed-ridden Elizabeth Bain, brings trouble when she calls on Perry Mason with a glass phial containing four pills which she suspects are poison. Her employer, Nathan Bain, she says, had promised her money to give them to his wife. But when Mason has one of the pills analyzed it is found to consist of... Read more »

The Case of the Angry Mourner

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

Do birds of a feather plot murder together?

When notorious playboy Arthur Cushing is murdered, Belle Adrian suspects that her daughter, Carlotta, is the killer, and Carlotta suspects her mother of the crime.

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The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

A waitress in a favorite restaurant of Mason's runs out in the middle of the lunch rush, leaving behind her pricey mink coat. But this is only the first question in a cop-killer case that traps Mason’s client with both an impossible story and the murder weapon. With Perry as a prime suspect with a blazing gunpowder trail that leads straight to... Read more »

The Case of the Grinning Gorilla

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

Helen Cadmus was dead—but how had it happened?

Suicide, most people said. She jumped off that millionaire’s yacht in a fit of despair, her body was never found, and the case was closed. The story was too neat to suit Perry Mason. It didn’t add up. Somebody was concealing the truth about Helen’s death, and he was going to uncover it even if it... Read more »

The Case of the Hesitant Hostess

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

Perry Mason had no hesitation in defending Albert Brogan, a broke ex-salesman against a charge of robbery. He’s counting on the testimony of the nightclub hostess Martha Lavina to clear him. She had most of the requirements for a good professional hostess, and one was an innocent face. That, plus various other attractions, made her a formidable... Read more »

The Case of the Fugitive Nurse

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Death and taxes…and murder?

The affairs of her husband—financial and otherwise—are what concern Steffanie Malden. The young and stunning bride of a prominent physician killed in a private plane crash, the widow Malden stands to inherit more than just a sizable estate. Unfortunately, she's also the unwilling heir to an IRS investigation. It... Read more »

The Case of the Runaway Corpse

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

The two women in Perry Mason’s office were a cat-and-mouse combination. And at first glance it seemed that little Mrs. Davenport was the mouse. But her husband said she was trying to kill him…that she had already murdered once and would not hesitate to strike again. Mason’s own curiosity made him take the case, and before long he was wanted for... Read more »

The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

The naked and the very dead…

The blonde wandering nude at the Remuda Gold Club tells Perry Mason a strange story. She says that while she peacefully sun-bathed near the course, someone made off with her Cadillac, her trailer, and all of her belongings—including her precious diary.

The woman blames the police who suspect her of having stashed away... Read more »

The Case of the Glamorous Ghost

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Though some think they saw a ghost, it was a real, live woman in the (mostly exposed) flesh flitting through Sierra Vista Park. Eleanor Corbin has a taste for trouble—and a talent for getting out of it using the most outrageous means to cover her tracks. Now her scandalized half-sister, Olga, fears Eleanor may be using lascivious antics to... Read more »

The Case of the Screaming Woman

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

Joan Kirby doesn't believe her husband's story about picking up a stranded woman in the middle of the night and dropping her off at a hotel. She asks Perry Mason to cross-examine him. Mason uncovers a much murkier trail involving murder, illegal adoption, stolen narcotics and blackmail.

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The Case of the Lucky Loser

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

The voice on the phone was young and silky. The woman it belonged to touched something soft in Perry Mason's cool, legalistic mind. The offer she made was too intriguing to pass up. But what began as a request for a simple courtroom visit turned into an intrigue of baffling complexity…as well as one of the most cleverly rigged frame-ups of... Read more »

The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

Engaged to a dynamic young go-getter on his way up the corporate ladder, secretary Mildred Crest was riding high. Until her prince charming embezzled company funds and skipped town, leaving Mildred with nothing but a ring on her finger and egg on her face. Now all she wants is to start life over again and when a fateful drive leads to the death... Read more »

The Case of the Long-legged Models

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

This Perry Mason mystery is a tantalizing triple-decker. One threesome comprises three glamorous ladies—all long-legged models with ambitions that range from keeping the home fires burning to putting the home fires out. Another trio is a far-from-pleasant collection of small metal objects called guns.

Finally, the favorite triumvirate of mystery... Read more »

The Case of the Singing Skirt

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

Ellen Robb does more than just sing for her supper—she also dances and sells cigarettes in a two-bit gambling parlor in a one-horse town. But when she hits a sour note with her scheming employer by refusing to help fleece a fat-cat customer in a crooked card game, she finds herself out of all three jobs. That's when she sings her song of woe to... Read more »

The Case of the Mythical Monkeys

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

It all began when pretty Gladys Doyle lost her way and was forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. The next morning she discovered her handsome host gone and a stranger in his place—dead as the proverbial herring.

There follows a courtroom scene in the best Perry Mason tradition, with a most reticent group of witnesses: a lady author whose... Read more »

The Case of the Deadly Toy

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

When Norda Allison saw her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately called off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fiancé has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailbox—articles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Norda’s life takes an even darker turn.... Read more »

The Case of the Spurious Spinster

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

Wealthy Amelia Corning, owner of the Corning mine interests, might be an old lady in a wheelchair but she doesn't miss a trick. Secretary Susan Fisher has to call in Perry Mason when she finds her boss's seven-year-old son holding a shoebox stuffed with hundred-dollar bills. Miss Corning's life is at risk.

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The Case of the Reluctant Model

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

Art student Maxine Lindsay, as the guest of her mentor, art dealer Colin Durant, attends a reception aboard the yacht of millionaire Otto Olney, who is unveiling his newest purchase, a $130,000 Gauguin. When Durant confides that the painting is a fake, Maxine becomes involved in a complicated series of deceptions. Soon gallery owner Leslie... Read more »

The Case of the Blonde Bonanza

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

Mason gives Della Street two weeks’ vacation! That is, it was supposed to be a vacation, but Della turned it into a busman’s holiday.

Target of interest was a well-stacked blonde—one who incredibly stashed away five enormous meals a day. Her name was Dianne, and when Mason unexpectedly appeared, he and Della discovered she had signed a contract... Read more »

The Case of the Amorous Aunt

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

Marriage is a big commitment…and so is murder.

Lorraine Elmore is a well-to-do widow who’s ready to marry again. But nervous Linda Calhoun is certain that the man her aunt Lorraine has fallen for is a fortune-hunting Bluebeard who's out to make a killing—in more ways than one. Perry Mason alloys Linda's paranoia—until Detective Paul Drake digs up... Read more »

The Case of the Horrified Heirs

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

Virginia Baxter is the only witness still living who can vouch for the authenticity of Lauretta Trent’s will. Lauretta Trent, a wealthy widow is also living. But for how long? Someone has been peppering the spicy food Lauretta loves with arsenic. Could it be the same someone who tried framing Virginia Baxter for drug smuggling?

Lauretta Trent... Read more »

The Case of the Daring Divorcee

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

Perry Mason and Della Street were both out to lunch. Gertie, the receptionist and telephone operator, was indulging in her favorite noontime occupation - munching chocolates and reading a love story - when the door burst open and a woman rushed in.

Gertie got her name, all right, dimly registered the fact that she was not only very attractive... Read more »

The Case of the Troubled Trustee

By: Erle Stanley Gardner
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

A talented but overprotective young man has his hands full as trustee of the inheritance of a beautiful blonde but very naive young woman. But his love and her money don't mix. Why would he embezzle a quarter of a million dollars from his client "for her own good?" Perry Mason may be able to prove, in fact, that his client is no embezzler…but... Read more »