Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novelsfeaturing criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Masonin striking trade paperback editions. Julia Branner was forced by her millionaire father-in-law to give up her baby for adoption. When a young woman surfaces years later claiming to be Julias daughter, Julia insists shes a fraud after the family fortune, and enlists Bishop William Mallory to help expose the imposter. When Julias father-in-law is found dead and Julia charged with his murder, the bishop promises to helpbut is a bishop whos delivered many sermons likely to stutter?,.
