Wednesday, June 03, 2020
The Case of the Rolling Bones
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Around 30 years ago, Alden Leeds made a fortune prospecting for gold in the Yukon. Now Alden is in his seventies, and some of his family members (and heirs) feel that he's getting senile and needs to be committed. Alden's assistant disagrees and asks Perry mason to protect him. Mason takes the case and, since this is an Erle Stanley Gardner novel, there is a murder and the plot goes in anything but a straight line.
The Case of the Rolling Bones was an interesting story. Like many of my generation, I picture Perry mason according to the television series of the late 50s, with the big cars, thin ties, and a straight-laced, sanitized, and orderly society. This novel, however, was written in 1939. The old men spoke about life on the frontier and lament the softness of the younger generation. Mason and the other characters aren't restrained by the Hayes Code, nor do they have to worry about offending their sponsors. It's not great literature, but it is certainly entertaining waiting room material.
Labels: ErleStanleyGardner, PerryMason, WaitingRoomMaterial
// posted by John @ 11:32 PM 
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