The following is a list of the 82 Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Many Perry Mason novels were first published in serial format in The Saturday Evening Post, some with different titles. Sixteen appeared in the Toronto Star Weekly in condensed form. All books were first published by William Morrow and Company, New York. Most were published simultaneously in Toronto. Many of the novels were adapted for the later television series starring Raymond Burr, with some being adapted more than once, and those second adaptations bearing different names.
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—Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Donald Jordan, Murder by Television, trying to bribe Perry into revealing Professor Houghland’s secret (1935)
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—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)