The Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner The Case of the Buried Clock Erle Stanley Gardner New York: Pocket Books Pocket Book 678 Copyright 1943 Pocket printing March 1950 233 pages The binding is in acceptable condition, the pages are clean but tanned. The cover is scuffed, stained and edge worn. Acceptable. Paperback. Perry Mason solves a baffler when he learns why a glamorous widow who should have a husband, didnt. Why a bank clerk boasted brazenly about a $90,000 embezzlement, a client on trial for murder wouldn't 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 and why an alarm clock ticked away cheerfully underground