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The Case of the Rolling Bones

The Case of the Rolling Bones

CrimeLaw
Pages
278
Published
1939
Language
English

Synopsis

A wealthy gold prospector is committed to a sanitarium by his greedy relatives who fear he'll marry a gold digger. After escaping, he finds himself entangled with a man who deals in loaded dice, only for that man to be murdered. With his fingerprints at the scene, Perry Mason must clear his client's name and expose the real killer before he's permanently locked away.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

TenseMysteriousThought-ProvokingIntellectual
Betrayal

Genres

Crime Law Mystery Legal Thriller

About the author

E
Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was a prolific American author. A former lawyer, he is best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A...

Characters

Perry MasonProtagonist
Alden LeedsSupporting
Emily MilicantSupporting
All characters in The Case of the Rolling Bones