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# The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife (A Perry Mason Mystery) Mass Market Paperback – March 13, 1991

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Mass Market Paperback: 45 pages Publisher: Fawcett (March 13, 1991) Language: English
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perry Proved Wrong, at First.
        
*by J***S on August 10, 2016*

Perry Mason is on a yacht as an attorney in a business deal. At midnight he goes for a stroll on deck when he  hears a splash and a shot. Then  the scantily clad wife of one of the businessmen  runs up to him with a pistol from which one shot has been fired.  She is arrested for murder and despite all the evidence pointing to her guilt, Perry takes on her defense.The is a good Perry Mason novel with the usual characters and interesting and witty dialogue. At first I didn't like the way this story was going.  To prove his client's innocence Perry comes up with a hair brained scheme that really seemed to defy all logic and was barely supported by the facts.  Then it starts to appear that he is right. Evidence is falling into place backing up his deductions of the scheme so he calls in Lt.Tragg to be with him when he exposes the plot. Lo and behold, he is dead wrong. All his assumptions are explained away and Perry looks very foolish.  That certainly is different from the usual Perry Mason novel and really caught my attention. Well done, Mr. Gardner.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perry sticks his neck out, and almost gets it chopped off!
        
*by W***M on April 26, 2015*

The best books in the Perry Mason series have all the things fans have come to expect and love and a little unexpected twist.  After all, we KNOW that Perry will find out whodunit, so we need a road block or two thrown in his path just to keep things interesting.In this story, WWII is not long over.  Families are mourning their dead, newly-minted civilians are dealing with the wounds (physical and otherwise) of battle, and the economy is booming.  A rising economy means that land is being bought and sold and that opens a ripe field for con artists.  A widow wants to sell an island and a millionaire wants to buy it, but there's a question of oil rights to be settled.  The millionaire invites all parties onto his yacht to try to hammer out a settlement.  Perry is invited along to keep everyone honest.  Sounds like a perfect setting for a murder, doesn't it?The twist here comes in the form of a very attractive, very shrewd, very persuasive real estate agent.  Perry is convinced he knows what happened, but when he ropes in the LAPD to help prove it, the evidence disappears like smoke. Perry's left looking foolish and Lt. Tragg is pardonably smug.It all works out in the end, naturally.  There's a lovely scene of Perry and Della picnicking in a rural spot, his head in her lap while he dreams out loud of buying a quiet place for them and settling down.  Della humors him, but knows him too well to believe it.  Although I normally dislike romance in a mystery, Della and her boss are an endearing pair. It's a very satisfying book.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Twisty plotting, Mason almost foiled
        
*by K***L on February 2, 2019*

Lots of plot lines cross, Tragg is fooled by villains, Ham Burger comes near to thwarting Perry, who daydreams of a hideaway with Fella.
  

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