The Case of the Reluctant Model

Written by Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrated by Alexander Cendese

Art student Maxine Lindsay, as the guest of her mentor, art dealer Colin Durant, attends a reception aboard the yacht of millionaire Otto Olney, who is unveiling his newest purchase, a $130,000 Gauguin. When Durant confides that the painting is a fake, Maxine becomes involved in a complicated series of deceptions. Soon gallery owner Leslie Rankin threatens Maxine. Perry Mason is called in, a beatnik artist is accused of painting the fake, and Durant is found fully clothed in Maxine's shower, shot dead with her pistol.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Aug 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781531828592

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was a prolific American author best known for his Perry Mason novels, which sold twenty thousand copies a day in the mid-1950s. There have been six motion pictures based on his work and the hugely popular Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr, which aired for nine years.

Reviews for The Case of the Reluctant Model

[book58lover · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A model unwittingly becomes involved in a scam with forged paintings and a wealthy benefactor. Mason at his best, even when Burger tries to get one over.

[antiquary_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An art dealer claims a painting recently sold for a high price is an obvious fake. He said this to a young woman named Maxine Lindsay, and so she is Perry Mason's star witness in the seller's suit for slander. Then she vanishes leaving a dead body behind in her apartment, and Mason finds he is (as usual)involved in a murder case. The biography of the painter seems suggested by the life of Gauguin.

[vincentdarlage · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

An excellent Perry Mason mystery. Some shocking developments, and an interesting who-done-it, but not quite as spectacular as a few others. I like the relationship Mason has with Tragg. I liked the plot twist of having Mason fall victim to a con game - and watching him fight to get out of being made out a fool was interesting. I last read this 22 years ago.