Perry Mason The Case of the Daring Decoy & The Case of the Lazy Lover by Erle Stanley Gardner 1956 Walter Black Crime fiction mystery books

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This is a very good hardcover. Circa 1960's Walter Black Publishing. This copy is very good inside and out. The inside pages are very good and clean. The binding is tight and straight with fine sewn (not modern glued) binding. Grey hardcover boards are also very good with only a hint of shelf wear and feature gold lettering along spine in black block. Crown octavo book size or 5" x 8" with 135 pages. ESG design endpapers front and back. This copy contains the original accompanying Walter Black pamphlet.

This is two Perry Mason novels, The Case of the Daring Decoy & The Case of the Lazy Lover, two crime fiction mystery novels in one edition. They were written by Erle Stanley Gardner. This is the Walter J. Black, circa 1960's edition. Walter Black published a series of two-story volumes.

The Case of the Daring Decoy, originally published in 1956, is a fast-paced legal thriller that follows Mason as he defends a young oil executive framed for a murder committed during a heated corporate proxy war
The Case of the Lazy Lover, originally published in 1947, features defense lawyer Perry Mason investigating a case involving a missing witness, forgery, and murder after receiving mysterious checks from a woman who has run off with her daughter's boyfriend. The plot thickens with corporate power struggles and legal complexities, all while Mason works to uncover the truth behind the seemingly unenthusiastic husband and the runaway couple.

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