{"id":18321,"date":"2021-12-09T05:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18321"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:08:18","slug":"book-50-of-52-the-case-of-the-gilded-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/book-50-of-52-the-case-of-the-gilded-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 50 (of 52) &#8211; The Case Of The Gilded Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18322\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/gildedlily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18322\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/gildedlily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/gildedlily.jpg 328w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/gildedlily-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Case Of The Gilded Lily &#8211; Erle Stanley Gardner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a blackmailer is found dead in a motor lodge, Perry Mason tries to stay a step ahead of the police while trying to determine if his client, or his client&#8217;s wife, were responsible.\u00a0 After his client is arrested, Perry, along with Della Street and Paul Drake, have to get to the bottom of the case: who killed the blackmailer, who was his partner, and who is framing his client and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Erle Stanley Gardner\u2019s <em>The Case of the Gilded Lily<\/em>, originally published in 1956, is the 50th entry in his Perry Mason series, the sixth of six novels re-released last year in conjunction with the new adaptation on HBO, and the fifth that I&#8217;ve read this year. This was not the best entry in this series that I&#8217;ve read, but does spend plenty of time in court, where Perry Mason and Hamilton Burger are much more adversarial than they are in the classic TV series.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing the TV adaptation from the Raymond Burr version of the show, the 34th episode of its first season, so I can compare the filmed version with the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a blackmailer is found dead in a motor lodge, Perry Mason tries to stay a step ahead of the police while trying to determine if his client, or his client&#8217;s wife, were responsible.\u00a0 After his client is arrested, Perry, along with Della Street and Paul Drake, have to get to the bottom of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[5332,2937,4803,3837,9842],"class_list":["post-18321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-hbo","tag-perry-mason","tag-raymond-burr","tag-the-case-of-the-gilded-lily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18323,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions\/18323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}