The Cool-Lam combo is beating it out again in a lively, ingenious mystery that will be music to the ears of all A. A. Fair — Erle Stanley Gardner fans...
Take the following ingredients:
• A $100,000 armored truck robbery
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When Donald Lam and Bertha Cool cut in on a deal, they CUT THIN TO WIN. The man’s name was Clayton Dawson. The Cool-Lam Agency was so well known he’d come from Denver for help on a highly confidential matter... After adjusting to the fact that...
A sporting preparation to the intelligent mystery fan: don't open this door when you want to play fair with the most original pair of detectives of years — and will keep the secret that is going to make detective-story history — the secret of...
DONALD LAM is home from the wars and up to his neck in the hard-hitting, swift-moving murder mystery Give ’Em the Ax.
The voices were low and to Bertha Cool’s trained ear — never-ending. She’d tell that Elsie Brand a thing or two about...
First there was the blind man. He “saw” a great deal for a sightless man.
Bertha Cool had no sooner digested his strange story when her life really became complicated with other things...
A girl who was hit by an automobile but who...
It all started with Milton Carling Calhoun, a wealthy young tycoon, who hired Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to find a writer named Colburn Hale.
The reason? Calhoun just wanted to talk to Hale.
The search begins in the novelist’s pad and...
It started as a routine tail — shadowing an oily hustler who’d been courting a well-healed matron. But the assignment soon led Donald Lam to a sleazy hotel room with a sexy barfly. And now she’s left him high and dry with a pair of corpses...
Unfettered, unfiltered, unorthodox Bertha Cool and Donald Lam have four of the least likely and most popular private eyes in the business — and they’ve never been in sharper focus!
It’s always exciting when Erle Stanley Gardner assumes his...
The French Quarter of New Orleans — where everything has happened, where anything can happen... the exciting and colorful French Quarter — where the past is the present and there is no future.
It was a long trail from New York to Los Angeles...
First there was Everett Belder. He seemed to have a round-trip ticket from the frying pan to the fire.
Bertha Cool had no sooner agreed to help him than she found herself traveling the same route.
And everywhere she looked there were...