The will does not specify that the caretaker gets to keep the cat, who is, naturally, the caretaker's best friend in the world. Otherwise, the snotty grandkid says he will poison it. The dead employer's grandchildren move into the home, but one of them hates the cat and insists that the caretaker get rid of it. Ashton's employer has recently died in a fire, but the employer's will provides that the caretaker has a job for life, looking after the place. Curious, Perry sees the man who wants him to defend his cat, Clinker. Perry is fresh off an exhausting murder case when Charles Ashton, a cantankerous, frail, elderly caretaker comes into the office and insists on seeing him.
With the success of Perry Mason, he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely, except for non-fiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science.įirst published in 1935, this is a very early entry in the Perry Mason series, back in the day when there were still cuspidors in the courtroom and when both the police and the lawyers could still cut the kind of corners that would get them arrested, disbarred and jailed in this day and age. He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith, a "gentleman thief" in the tradition of Raffles, and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation, the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than eighty novels. In his spare time, he began to write for pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A.
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