The Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Buried Clock
Erle Stanley Gardner
New York: Pocket Books
Pocket Book 678
Copyright 1943
Pocket printing March 1950
233 pages

The binding is in acceptable condition, the pages are clean but tanned. The cover is scuffed, stained and edge worn.  Acceptable. Paperback.

Perry Mason solves a baffler when he learns why a glamorous widow who should have a husband, didnt. Why a bank clerk boasted brazenly about a $90,000 embezzlement, a client on trial for murder wouldn't talk to him, a gold mine yielded no gold, a certain gal was always on hand when he wanted her miles away, but always missing when he needed her and why an alarm clock ticked away cheerfully underground