Perry Mason - ‘The Case of the Glass Coffin’
signed first edition
1991 · Los Angeles
by CLEMENS, BRIAN (ERLE STANLEY GARDNER)
Los Angeles: Dean Hargrove Productions / Fred Silverman Company, 1991. First Edition. Signed on the front cover by actor James McEachin, who co-starred in this production. Original 112 page revised draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for the television movie Perry Mason - The Case of the Glass Coffin written by Brian Clemens, starring Raymond Burr, based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner. Bound with brads. With a faint dampstain to the left side of the front cover not affecting the interior, else fine in printed wrappers. This movie also starred Barbara Hale as Della Street, William R. Moses, Nancy Grahn, Julie Sommars, and Peter Scolari. James McEachin’s early life experiences were in the military, as a policeman, a fireman, and a record producer. He turned to a career in show business, and was often cast to highlight his African-American heritage with successful roles in such well-known television series as Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, and Dragnet. He was cast in the pivotal role of the d.j. in Play Misty for Me with Clint Eastwood. He starred briefly in his own series as detective Harry Tenafly, in Tenafly. Many of us remember him for his terrific work as police lieutenant Brock in the 1986 television movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun - a role he would reprise throughout the years. He is the author of Farewell to the Mockingbirds which won the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award, The Heroin Factor (1999), Say Goodnight to the Boys in Blue (2000), The Great Canis Lupus (2001), and Tell me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South (2003), Pebbles in the Roadway (2003), a collection of short stories and essays, and in 2005, he produced the award-winning audio book Voices: A Tribute to the American Veteran. (Inventory #: 17254E)