Author: Gardner, Erle Stanley.
Title: The Case of the Lame Canary.
Description: New York: Pocket Books, Inc. (1943). (1943). - Small octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, mass market paperback bound in color pictorial wraps illustrated by Lawrence Hoffman. The covers are bumped & lightly creased. [iii], 237 & [13] pages. Good.

Third Printing of the Pocket Book edition.

"Keep your eye on the birdie! Here's a rough-and-tumble case, as wild as a game of no-limit poker. It begins with Rita Swaine. She was young and attractive, and she came into Perry Mason's law office with a caged canary and a hard-luck story about her sister's domestic troubles. It obviously wasn't a case for Perry Mason, who specialized in homicides. But then Perry noticed the canary was lame,,,," [Quoted from the back cover]. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; MYSTERY; THE CASE OF THE LAME CANARY; ERLE STANLEY GARDNER; PERRY MASON; DETECTIVE FICTION; POCKET BOOK; ATTORNEY; LAWYER; LEGAL SUSPENSE; LAWRENCE HOFFMAN COVER ILLUSTRATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; FICTION; MASS MARKET PAPERBACK; TH

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