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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Case the Rolling Bones - Perry Mason (originale 1939; edizione 1960)di Erle Stanley Gardner
Informazioni sull'operaThe Case of the Rolling Bones di Erle Stanley Gardner (1939)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. --J. "Rolling Bones" confused the heck out of me. I reread scenes as I went along, hoping to better understand it, but it didn't help. The corpse (I think--see, this is how confused I am) used so many different aliases I'm not sure what his real identity was. Perry successfully uses one corpse to solve two murders in the end--I think. Exactly. Once upon a time, two men found gold in Klondike. By the end of that winter one of them was dead and one of them was rich. Now, decades later, the heirs of the man that returned want to declare him incompetent - mainly because he seems to have fallen in love. It is a niece that comes to Perry to ask for help against these plans - but before long the first body appears (not much surprise there). The problem is that the man cannot be dead - because he is already dead. And that's how starts a yarn of the past and days when people were getting rich by finding gold. For a while, I was wondering where Gardner is going with the story but then when the aliases and names started rolling, the story turned into a double story - one side in the 30s with Mason; one back in the Klondike. A woman that is not what she appears to be, a man that cannot be alive, another that dies two times. It is obvious that names had been exchanged but the reasons for it are not straight forward - and it seems that the story is a lot more complicated than anyone expected. Mason deciding to protect his clients and manufacture some clues do not help things much. At the end the story wrapped in nicely but I am a bit ambivalent about what the lawyer did - legal it may have been but it was not very morally sound. Despite the reasons for it. I enjoyed the window in the past as seen from a later past - seeing the past with the eyes of the people that would have been dead before I was born (were they real) is fascinating. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Years ago, Alden Leeds struck it rich when he discovered a vein of gold. Now, aging and single, he finds himself surrounded by family waiting patiently to inherit his fortune. When he announces his engagement to a much younger woman, it sends that family into a panic, fearing that it might threaten their future gains. They have him admitted into a sanitarium, claiming incompetence--and that's when lawyering super-sleuth Perry Mason gets involved, but the case is about to get much more complicated... Before all is said and done, Mason will tangle with a cheating gambler, a blackmailer, multiple aliases, multiple corpses, and enough red herrings to lead even the most astute reader astray. It will push the attorney's deductive powers to their very limits before all is revealed, finally, in his masterful courtroom cross-examination. A fast-paced yarn with a delightfully convoluted plot, The Case of the Rolling Bones is among the best of the long-running Perry Mason novels, which would go on to inspire multiple television series as well as adaptations for radio and film. The book exemplifies the masterful page-turning action for which its prolific author is remembered today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Mason pushes the boundaries of court ethics to win the case with the help of Della Street and Paul Drake. ( )