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    The Case of the Rolling Bones
    The Case of the Rolling Bones
    The Case of the Rolling Bones
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Case of the Rolling Bones

    Written by Erle Stanley Gardner

    Narrated by Alexander Cendese

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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 up in the company of Emily's blackmailing brother, John, a manufacturer of fixed dice, rolling bones that always come up seven. But when John is murdered—with Leeds's fingerprints found all over the apartment—Perry Mason must crack a baffling case before his client bumps from the nut house to the jail house.…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 27, 2017
    ISBN9781531827397
    The Case of the Rolling Bones
    Author

    Erle Stanley Gardner

    Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was a prolific American author best known for his Perry Mason novels, which sold twenty thousand copies a day in the mid-1950s. There have been six motion pictures based on his work and the hugely popular Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr, which aired for nine years.

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    • 4/5
      A somewhat confusing storyline - although it is clear at the end who is the killer, it's not always clear who was actually killed. Nevertheless, it fits well with the gripping nature of all Perry Mason mysteries.
    • 3/5
      Perry is confront with a murder case in which his client is accused of murdering a man in the Klondike in 1907 but the police say he was also murdered in California thirty-three years later. Is Emily Milicant the wife, sister of mistress? Why did the owner of the crooked dice eat his dinner twice? Mason pushes the boundaries of court ethics to win the case with the help of Della Street and Paul Drake.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 2/5
      "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.
    • 4/5
      The Case of the Rolling Bones is a Perry Mason mystery that involves murder, sanitariums, gold digging women, gold digging prospectors, mistaken identity, restaurant delivery, worried relatives, and most of all, the amazing powers of deduction.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      Mason gets involved in a case involving former gold prospectors from the Klondike, as well as crooked dice.