The Case of the Grinning Gorilla.

Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Grinning Gorilla.

New York:

William Morrow & Company

1952

Another in Gardner’s Perry Mason series begun in 1932. This particular copy is especially interesting, inscribed both by Gardner and by the book’s dedicatee, Dr. R. B. H. Gradwohl, who suggested the idea for the plot. Gardner inscribed the book in December 1952 to a friend of Gradwohl’s. Gardner had practiced law in California for several years but quit when he published his first Perry Mason. He wrote at least 120 books and supposedly had 135 million copies in print upon his death in 1970.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson