TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,Erle Stanley AU - Phillips,Barye ED - Pocket Books, TI - The case of the buried clock T2 - [A Perry Mason mystery] PY - 1950///] CY - New York PB - Pocket Books, Incorporated KW - Mason, Perry KW - Criminal defense lawyers KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Trials (Murder) KW - fast KW - Los Angeles (Calif.) KW - Clock (general) KW - USA KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Legal fiction (Literature) KW - lcgft KW - Novels N1 - "Pocket Book edition published March, 1950. 1st printing ...... February, 1950"--Title page verso; Front cover illustration by Barye Phillips; Reginald, R. Cumulative paperback index, 1939-1959; page 77 N2 - "Perry Mason solves a baffler when he learns why a glamorous widow who should have a husband, didn't. A bank clerk boasted brasenly about a $90,000 embezzlement. A client on trial for murder wouldn't even 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 most. And why an alarm clock ticked away cheerfully underground." -- ER -