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Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-145
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner-at his death the best-selling American writer of all time-comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped was meant to be the second book in the series, but shelved when Gardner's publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool's tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities--however shocking for 1939--shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason -- at the time of her death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Last year, Hard Case Crime brought out the first new Cool and Lam novel in decades, THE KNIFE SLIPPED, lost for 77 years after Gardner's publisher refused...