First came Perry Mason... then Douglas Selby the “D.A.”... and now TERRY CLANE, a new sleuth from America.
Jacob Mandra had a million-dollar apartment on the fringe of Chinatown — and a reputation.
Early one morning they found him...
A new Gardner character — Bill Eldon! These two CLUE stories — each with a crime so calculated, so cold-blooded, that it came near being perfect — will establish human, kindly Sheriff Eldon as a dangerous rival for Perry Mason and Doug Selby.
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When we found Perry Mason, we called SEVEN! When we met the “D.A.” — Douglas Selby — we shouted ELEVEN! They’re both naturals — and though Perry Mason does not take part in this novel, it marks the appearance of Erle Stanley Gardner’s...
Blondes’ Requiem is a thriller with a surprise, by a writer who can always hold the suspense to the end.
When Marc Spewack, private investigator, arrives in Cranville, he is aware of the terror, violence and sudden death that are to come. He...
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long-shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He...
In his spirited Introduction to a topnotch collection of Great American Detective Stories, Anthony Boucher says: “The detective short story belongs to us. It started in America and it started off magnificently. In five stories, Edgar Allan Poe...
Here is a fast moving, tough minded mystery for everybody who has ever thrilled to the sound of lire engines screaming down a busy street. The hero is Ben Pedley, Fire Marshal of New York City; the problem, a fire set in a radio star’s dressing...
A girl like Brenda and fifty grand... Who could blame Cleo Constance for trying to make a killing? Certainly not Jeff Pitt, who knew Brenda... But who did not know just what kind of a killing Cleo would...