She also was married to Ryan O’Neal and was mother of Tatum O’Neal. She played Andy Griffith’s girlfriend in season three of the Andy Griffith Show. None of our current 20 episodes (or even 10) in a season, no sirree. ![]() That was way back in the day when TV series had 39 episodes in a season. When it came to television, this novel was adapted for a first season episode broadcast on June 21, 1958. Plenty of courtroom action over half the novel is set in court. ![]() Gertie gets a couple of nice scenes, and law-clerk Jackson is an all-but-forgotten memory. But District Attorney Hamilton Burger is present, and finally gets to hear those lovely words “Guilty!” Sitting chagrinned as the verdict is read are our heroes Perry, Della, and Paul. Lieutenant Tragg is missing yet again, although his name is mentioned in passing once. Did the terrified typist plant the stolen diamonds in the representative’s office? Or is she an innocent dupe? Perry Mason solves it all in this 49th courtroom drama. representatives who is accused of the crime. The giant South African diamond conglomerate hires Perry Mason to defend one of its U.S. A swindler and smuggler of diamonds has been murdered. And the terrified young lady who enters Perry’s office posing as a typist is the key to the whole thing. But somehow, Perry still saves the day in this nail-biter. Book cover for The Terrified Typist.Guilty! Yes, at the end of this story Perry Mason’s client is found guilty. Both were published in 1956, the year before Perry Mason debuted on television with Raymond Burr in the lead role… a part he went on to make his own.įrom 1956 comes the first of three Perry Mason novels published that year, The Case of the Terrified Typist. In today’s blog, I’ll be discussing the 49th and 50th Perry Mason stories. The first Perry Mason mystery was published in 1933 and the final one was published in 1973, three years after Gardner’s death. But it was for Perry Mason, the courtroom attorney, that he became the most well known. Erle Stanley Gardner in one of his several appearances as a judge.Įrle Stanley Gardner started writing for the pulps in 1923.
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