![]() The author's cause of death was cancer but, if this were one of his stories, one could find a good jumping off point for a plot line there. When William Hopper, the actor who played detective Paul Drake in the Perry Mason TV series passed away on March 6, 1970, Gardner followed just five days later. In 1933 Gardner published his first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, and readers were introduced to beloved characters Perry, Della Street and detective Paul Drake for the very first time. The Case of the Terrified Typist Sponsored Products Related To This Item Customers Also Bought Related Products To This Item Similar Category Best Selling. His first story was published in a pulp magazine in 1923 and from there, there was no turning back. One can imagine him, seated behind a creaky wooden desk, developing the muscle memory of transcribing cases, and then launching his imagination into the development of his own. When Gardner began his legal career in the early 1900s, he started out as a typist for a law firm in California. ![]() Defense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires. Related: 10 Classic Whodunits Every Mystery Fan Needs to Read Read The Case of the Terrified Typist by Erle Stanley Gardner for free on hoopla. I’m old enough to have used typewriters (still have my Smith Corona from college) so I can appreciate how the woman’s typing skills who starts the mystery rolling is so valued by Perry and Della." The case of the terrified typist Unknown Binding Januby Erle Stanley Gardner (Author) 323 ratings Book 5 of 6: The Perry Mason Mysteries Kindle 11. "We are treated in this book to the time of typewriters. "Reading a Perry Mason mystery is like taking a step into a “twilight zone” of time that you can’t believe actually existed - it did I lived through it," says a reviewer of The Case of the Terrified Typist on Goodreads.
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