{"id":24321,"date":"2026-05-23T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24321"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:30:18","slug":"book-27-of-52-the-case-of-the-careless-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/book-27-of-52-the-case-of-the-careless-kitten\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 27 (of 52) – The Case of the Careless Kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Case of the Careless Kitten – Erle Stanley Gardner<\/p><\/div>\n

When a mysterious phone call leads Helen Kendal to believe her long-missing uncle is ready to make his return, Perry Mason finds himself caught up in multiple mysteries, including what happened to the missing uncle, who shot Helen’s boyfriend, who poisoned Helen’s aunt and cat, and how does the whole thing tie together.\u00a0 When Hamilton Burger assumes Mason has stashed the missing uncle out of sight and charges Della with obstruction, it forces Perry to put the puzzle together to prove Della’s innocence.<\/p>\n

Originally published in 1942, The Case of the Careless Kitten<\/em> is 21st entry in Erle Stanley Gardner\u2019s Perry Mason series.\u00a0 This case, though heavily modified, was featured as the 24th episode of season eight in the Raymond Burr version of the show in 1965.\u00a0 Since this is a little further along in the series, the characters align more closely with those we are familiar with from television compared to the earlier entries.\u00a0 This was the final book I managed to snag during a New Year’s sale in the Kindle store, so it may be some time before I am able to return to Gardner\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a mysterious phone call leads Helen Kendal to believe her long-missing uncle is ready to make his return, Perry Mason finds himself caught up in multiple mysteries, including what happened to the missing uncle, who shot Helen’s boyfriend, who poisoned Helen’s aunt and cat, and how does the whole thing tie together.\u00a0 When Hamilton […]<\/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":[5332,2889,4803,3837,12632],"class_list":["post-24321","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-carless-kitten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24321","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=24321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24323,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24321\/revisions\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}