Gardner needed to revise and to fix some of the heavy-handed repeating of obvious points. The murderer is less compelling than the person who assisted in the scheme. Cavils: the solution gets snarled with an elaborate, superfluous, and unlikely tale of dopplegangers the same events could have been more plausibly explained. And the kitten-not really 'careless,' just natural-does provide a valuable clue, though many other equally valuable clues appear as well. I finished 'The Case of the Careless Kitten.' At least this tale doesn't depend for its resolution on Paul Drake's coming up with information no reader would be able to deduce. Obviously, no prosecutor would want to put such a witness before a jury, and Gardner was released and not bothered. However, he soon became overly helpful, telling wild stories filled with details that contradicted other witnesses and including his own guesses about the case as part of his testimony. When the police picked up Gardner to question him about some of what he had witnessed during his research, Gardner began by avoiding answering the questions. Gardner used the acquaintance to research his own pulp stories and learned a great deal about mob activity in Ventura. According to Alva Johnston, Gardner had used this strategy in the 1920s when heвЂ™d been questioned in Ventura after Gardner had gotten a mobster there acquitted of murder. Single witness who contradicts all other witnesses. Mason about this, Mason points out that the police do not want to uncover a Tragg that a suspect heard two shots instead of one. Observations, based on GardnerвЂ™s early legal career. 7) TCOT Empty Tin - Mason makes a few good legal

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