“As far as the woman who is living with him is concerned, she is a woman. She has problems of her own. She has built up a social position here and I don’t want to sweep that out from under her.”

  Again she took a deep breath, then smiled at Mason. “I’m returning to Bolero Beach,” she said. “I came up here as Dianne Alder, a model, and I’m going back to Bolero Beach as Dianne Alder.

  “You can make whatever settlement you want to with my… my father.”

  “You don’t want to see him?”

  She blinked back tears. “He doesn’t want to see me,” she said, “and I can realize that it’s dangerous for him to do so. I have no desire to wipe out the happiness of other people.”

  Mason nodded to Della Street. “That does it,” he said. “We’ll go out and give the reporters a statement.”

  About the Author

  Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

  Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) is a prolific American author best known for his works centered on the lawyer-detective Perry Mason. At the time of his death in March of 1970, in Ventura, California, Gardner was “the most widely read of all American writers” and “the most widely translated author in the world,” according to social historian Russell Nye. He was cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the #1 Bestselling Writer of All Time. The first Perry Mason novel, The Case of The Velvet Claws, published in 1933, had sold twenty-eight million copies in its first fifteen years. In the mid-1950s, the Perry Mason novels were selling at the rate of twenty thousand copies a day. 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 and 271 episodes.

 

 

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