![]() The author's cause of death was cancer but, if this were one of his stories, one could find a good jumping off point for a plot line there. When William Hopper, the actor who played detective Paul Drake in the Perry Mason TV series passed away on March 6, 1970, Gardner followed just five days later. In 1933 Gardner published his first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, and readers were introduced to beloved characters Perry, Della Street and detective Paul Drake for the very first time. His first story was published in a pulp magazine in 1923 and from there, there was no turning back. One can imagine him, seated behind a creaky wooden desk, developing the muscle memory of transcribing cases, and then launching his imagination into the development of his own. 'Perry Mason' The Case of the Terrified Typist (TV Episode 1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. When Gardner began his legal career in the early 1900s, he started out as a typist for a law firm in California. Watch Moore tonight on Perry Mason at 11:30PM/10:30C on MeTV. Related: 10 Classic Whodunits Every Mystery Fan Needs to Read The Terrified Typist is played by Joanna Moore, mother of youngest Oscar-winner Tatum ONeal. Later, it's discovered that she stumbled upon a murder plot. S1 E38: After a woman tries to steal some letters from an office in Perry's building, she masquerades as a temp for Della in order to escape the police. In The Case of the Deadly Verdict, Perry’s client receives the death penalty after being found guilty. Available on Pluto TV, Paramount+, Prime Video, Amazon Freevee. In The Case of the Terrified Typist, he was able to save his client from a guilty verdict. I’m old enough to have used typewriters (still have my Smith Corona from college) so I can appreciate how the woman’s typing skills who starts the mystery rolling is so valued by Perry and Della." There were two especially harrowing cases where Perry’s client was determined to be guilty. "We are treated in this book to the time of typewriters. "Reading a Perry Mason mystery is like taking a step into a “twilight zone” of time that you can’t believe actually existed - it did I lived through it," says a reviewer of The Case of the Terrified Typist on Goodreads.
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