The next volume of the Complete Works of E.S. Gardner includes novels about lawyer Perry Mason with their unchanged "happy ending." Gardner does not seek to paint the crime itself, but gives the reader the opportunity, following the author's whimsical imagination, impeccable logic, original conclusions and unexpected versions of his beloved hero, to try to open the veil of secrecy over the crime himself. Perry Mason himself does this, usually in the last pages of the book.