Erle Stanley Gardner, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $18.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-88184-683-6
First published in 1932 and 1933 by Black Mask magazine and starring the young crime-fighting lawyer Ken Corning and gutsy secretary Helen Vail, the six stories collected here provide the prototype for the late author's astoundingly successful Perry
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-78329-927-0
A gumshoe assigned to work a simple divorce case ends up accused of murder in this fast, often funny crime novel, written in 1939 but not published until now. On the run from the law, the detective is the diminutive but tough Donald Lam, who works...
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Erle Stanley Gardner, read by Alexander Cendese. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, 5 CDs, 5.5 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-5318-2716-8
Gardner’s 1936 novel, one of several new audiobooks from Brilliance featuring fiction’s famous defense attorney, is number nine in Perry Mason’s list of literary courtroom battles. It’s one of the series’s best, in which the speech-impaired prelate...
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Antonia Fraser, Compiled by, Ruth Rendell, Author, Erle Stanley Gardner, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4918-2
A welcome reissue is The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza, the fourth entry in Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series originally published in 1980. The Greenwich Village bookseller who moonlights as a burglar ""happens"" to discover a rare coin in...
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-78565-617-0
Out of print for half a century, this competent, snappy novel became the initial entry in the Bertha Cool and Donald Lam detective series in 1940, after the publisher bounced The Knife Slipped, which Hard Case brought into print for the first time...
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78565-634-7
In 1958, Gardner, the prolific creator of the Perry Mason legal thrillers, published this smooth and easy entry in his Cool and Lam detective series, now reissued with a classic—but brand new—cover by legendary paperback artist Robert McGinnis....
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Penzler, $25.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-61316-116-6
Originally published in 1942, this Perry Mason novel from the prolific Gardner (1889–1970) races along at breakneck speed. One morning, 24-year-old Helen Kendal receives a phone call from her uncle, banker Franklin Shore, who disappeared 10 years...
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Penzler, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-285-9
This fine Perry Mason whodunit from Gardner (1889–1970) opens with the legendary L.A. defense attorney and his assistant, Della Street, taking refuge in a department store from a downpour and witnessing a security guard’s attempts to arrest elderly...
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Penzler, $25.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-6131-6174-6
At the start of this fast-paced entry in the American Mystery Classics series, first published in 1940, Perry Mason rushes to his L.A. office to meet a potential client after a stranger awakens him in the middle of the night with an urgent phone...
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Penzler, $15.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-61316-248-4
A chance sighting of an oddity—eight look-alike brunettes, all wearing dark clothes and a fur around their necks, standing on consecutive corners of the same street—involves legendary L.A. defense attorney Perry Mason in one of Gardner’s cleverest...
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Erle Stanley Gardner. Hard Case Crime, $10.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78565-636-1
A car accident in Colinda, Calif., drives this appealing Cool and Lam caper from Gardner (1889–1970), first published in 1961. The chunky Berta Cool, the head of the Cool Detective Agency, believes she’s got a line on some respectable detective work
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