Book - Novel, Gardner, Erle Stanley, The case of the borrowed brunette, 1951

Physical description

239 p. : dark green cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, with illustration of a woman in a low-cut red dress wearing a fur wrap. Publisher's summary, also from dust jacket, pasted inside front cover.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Stamps: "Wonthaggi Club, McBride Avenue, Wonthaggi"

Summary

A Perry Mason detective story. Plot is "a convoluted scheme of impersonation". Women with specific physical characteristics are hired to impersonate another woman. The man who hires them is found murdered, and two of the women, Cora Felton and Adelle Winters, are charged with his murder.

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