10 FEBRUARY 1956, Page 24

THE CASE OF THE NEGLIGENT NYMPH. By Erle Stanley Gardner.

(Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) 'Boy, the way you managed to keep Gloster all tied up in knots, even when he had you on the run as far as the facts were concerned, is one of the greatest pieces of court- room technique I've ever seen.' In other words, as aficionados will immediately recognise, the indestructible Perry Mason is again in action, with the customary humiliations for the district attorney. Mason is in his most vigorous and overbearing form throughout this characteristically complicated mystery.