OVER THE YEARS, Perry Mason has become an American archetype: the wily lawyer who always gets his client off regardless of the niceties of legal procedure. Yet in the eighty-two books Erle Stanley ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When Perry Mason premiered on HBO in 2020, the series—a gritty reimagining of the iconic defense lawyer ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." It's easy to see why fans loved it—after all, the famed defense lawyer from the novels by Erle ...

Matthew Rhys plays the unbeatable defense attorney Perry Mason in HBO's series. Movies and TV have always been notorious for taking literary works and then making adaptations that flatten them out.