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The Case of the Runaway Corpse


Book ID
126214463
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
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✦ Synopsis


Her husband was stealing her money, while accusing her of a plot to poison him -- or so claims the frightened young Mrs. Myrna Davenport. She wants Perry Mason to find the incriminating note her husband left for the authorities accusing her of murder -- especially now that Davenport is dying.

Perry finds the envelope, but it's filled with blank paper. Then Davenport does die, or so everyone thinks until his alleged corpse climbs out a window and drives away -- straight into a prepared open grave in another county.

With Davenport finally dead, Perry could become a possible accessory to murder. And though the victim died twice, Perry gets only one clear shot at saving his client -- and himself.

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✍ Erle Stanley Gardner 📂 Fiction 📅 1954 🏛 Della Street Press 🌐 English ⚖ 101 KB

The two women in Perry Mason’s office were a cat-and-mouse combination. And at first glance it seemed that little Mrs. Davenport was the mouse. But her husband said she was trying to kill him…. that she had already murdered once and would not hesitate to strike again. Mason’s own curiosity made him