The D.A. Calls A Turn
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1954.
Gardner wrote this shorter series to accompany his more famous Perry Mason series. Doug Selby is the D.A. in a rural Southern California county. This 1942 episode brings wartime period flavor with a character's son away, but safe, on a destroyer and an opposing counsel serving rationed coffee. In Southern California, a car goes out of control and the D. A. finds a dog. The dead man's clothes don't fit and why should a ten year old letter be so important? Why does Carmen Freelman act so nervous? Selby has help from Sylvia Martin, a lovely newshound, and Sheriff Rex Brandon. He feels he is running in circles until he realizes the most important clue has been in his possession all of the time.
Condition grading: Good. Some bumping/creasing to top right corner of front cover and first few pages. Wear to spine ends. Paint mark halfway up spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1954.
Gardner wrote this shorter series to accompany his more famous Perry Mason series. Doug Selby is the D.A. in a rural Southern California county. This 1942 episode brings wartime period flavor with a character's son away, but safe, on a destroyer and an opposing counsel serving rationed coffee. In Southern California, a car goes out of control and the D. A. finds a dog. The dead man's clothes don't fit and why should a ten year old letter be so important? Why does Carmen Freelman act so nervous? Selby has help from Sylvia Martin, a lovely newshound, and Sheriff Rex Brandon. He feels he is running in circles until he realizes the most important clue has been in his possession all of the time.
Condition grading: Good. Some bumping/creasing to top right corner of front cover and first few pages. Wear to spine ends. Paint mark halfway up spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1954.
Gardner wrote this shorter series to accompany his more famous Perry Mason series. Doug Selby is the D.A. in a rural Southern California county. This 1942 episode brings wartime period flavor with a character's son away, but safe, on a destroyer and an opposing counsel serving rationed coffee. In Southern California, a car goes out of control and the D. A. finds a dog. The dead man's clothes don't fit and why should a ten year old letter be so important? Why does Carmen Freelman act so nervous? Selby has help from Sylvia Martin, a lovely newshound, and Sheriff Rex Brandon. He feels he is running in circles until he realizes the most important clue has been in his possession all of the time.
Condition grading: Good. Some bumping/creasing to top right corner of front cover and first few pages. Wear to spine ends. Paint mark halfway up spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
