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Perry Mason

NPR
Published June 10, 2002 at 12:00 AM EDT

Before he became America's most famous TV lawyer, Perry Mason defended clients and solved murder mysteries in Erle Stanley Gardner's books. NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on Perry Mason's origins for Morning Edition as part of the Present at the Creation series.

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