Here’s why HBO’s Perry Mason is returning to a gritty LA for new series

Perry Mason has been a TV icon since the 1950s, the archetypal courtroom lawyer whose incisive cross-examination inevitably saves the day. 
The character was created by the author Erle Stanley Gardner. A lawyer who advocated for the disenfranchised, immigrants and people of color, Gardner later turned to writing, starting with pulp stories and novels in the 1930s on his way to writing 151 books and selling 325 million copies. Gardner, who lived and worked in Temecula for more than 30 years,