The Case of the Autographed Corpse (S7E9)

Today, we're joined by author Jack El-Hai to talk about his new book, The Case of the Autographed Corpse. It's all about Erle Stanley Gardner, inventor of the beloved fictional criminal defense attorney Perry Mason, and how Gardner took action to help exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners in real life. One such prison inmate was Silas John Edwards, an Apache medicine man convicted of murder.

Above: Raymond Burr in the role of Perry Mason, in a 1958 episode of teh TV series titled The Case of the Corresponding Corpse.