title: Case of the Negligent Nymph
author:  Erle Stanley Gardner 
description: While Perry Mason is enjoying a moonlit canoe ride, he admires a naked bathing beauty. Little does he know he'll soon be rescuing her- and that next day he'll have to clear her of a jewlery-theft charge. But then she's suddenly charged again- this time with murder. It takes all of Perry's wiles, Della's insights, and Paul Drake's deft detecting to solve The Case of the Negligent Nymph.
  Erle Stanley Gardnew is the king of American mystery fiction. A criminal lawyer, he filled his mystery masterpieces with intricate, fascinating, ever-twisting plots. Challenging, clever, and full of surprises, these are whodunits in the best tradition.
zlib_text: The Case of the 
  Negligent Nymph
  Erle Stanley Gardner
  
  Foreword
  While writing “The Case of the Negligent Nymph” I was
  investigating two real-life murder cases, the bizarre ramifications of
  which rival any of the plots I have created in fiction.
  Three outstanding criminologists have been associated with me in
  these investigations—Dr. Le Moyne Snyder, physician and surgeon,
  attorney-at-law, 
  internationally 
  known 
  criminologist; 
  Raymond
  Schindler, the famous private detective, and the late Leonarde Keeler,
  whose sudden and unexpected death, news of which has just reached me,
  has been a great shock to all of us.
  Some months ago, Harry Steeger, the editor and co-owner of Argosy
  Magazine, accompanied me on a trip down the wild, rugged peninsula of
  Baja, California. During the long evenings while the blaze of our camp-
  fires illuminated the weird branches of the cardon trees, we discussed
  two of the cases I had handled during my career as a lawyer where I had
  befriended penniless unfortuna