{"id":23833,"date":"2026-02-19T05:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23833"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:09:14","slug":"book-9-of-52-the-case-of-the-baited-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/book-9-of-52-the-case-of-the-baited-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 9 (of 52) – The Case of the Baited Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Case of the Baited Hook – Erle Stanley Gardner<\/p><\/div>\n

When a mysterious, late-night meeting with a man and a disguised woman, who may eventually become a client, puts Perry Mason in a bind after a trustee is found dead, he tries to figure out which of the many possibilities surrounding the case the disguised woman may be.\u00a0 Once he is personally charged with aiding and abetting the homicide, but before he is officially arrested, he manages to track down the truth, both of his mystery client and who actually committed the murder, clearing hiw own name.<\/p>\n

Originally published in 1940, The Case of the Baited Hook<\/em> is 16th entry in Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series.\u00a0 This case, though heavily modified, was featured as the fourteenth episode of season one in the Raymond Burr version of the show.\u00a0 Since this is a little further along in the series, the characters align more closely with those we are familiar with from television.\u00a0 Thanks to a sale in the Kindle store to celebrate the new year, I was able to pick up a couple additional stories from Gardner’s oeuvre, which I hope to work through over the coming months,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a mysterious, late-night meeting with a man and a disguised woman, who may eventually become a client, puts Perry Mason in a bind after a trustee is found dead, he tries to figure out which of the many possibilities surrounding the case the disguised woman may be.\u00a0 Once he is personally charged with aiding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5332,2889,4803,3837,12355],"class_list":["post-23833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-kindle","tag-perry-mason","tag-raymond-burr","tag-the-case-of-the-baited-hook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23837,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23833\/revisions\/23837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}