That suave fly in the ointment of the underworld, Paul Pry, never guessed how close he’d come to pushing up daisies when he Started to chisel in on a suitcase full of hot ice. His one-armed camera-eye side-kick, Mugs Magoo, tried to warn him he...
Where there’s a will there’s a way — at least that was old A. B. Carr’s reasoning until Doug Selby appeared and mapped out another course...
Obviously the young lawyer, Inez Stapleton, had bitten off more than she could chew. It isn’t...
Black-eyes, blackguards, and glamorous blondes galore, land Perry Mason and Della Street in a pretty sweet pickle — soured beyond repair by the reappearance of Sergeant Holcomb...
Diana Regis was a stunner — and she had a shiner. But the...
That was Gil Best all over, a tough nut to crack and hard as nails. With brains to boot, as the chiseling legal staff of Airline Stage ways soon found when they tried their gyp-artist tactics on the shock-proof investigator’s own pet...
THE CLIENT: Blonde Edna Hammer, worried about her uncle, Peter Kent, who walked in his sleep with a carving knife in his hand. Is a man who walks in his sleep criminally responsible for what he does while sleepwalking? Edna wondered... So did Perry...
Erle Stanley Gardner dons his other cap and comes up with superior fare for A. A. Fair fans.
Bertha Cool was purring like a kitten. A client had just hired the agency to investigate a suspected insurance swindle, and in Bertha’s glittering...
The Corbins had plenty of money — and plenty of trouble. Most of the trouble came in a pert package marked Eleanor.
In this particular case, Eleanor made the headlines by wandering seminude in a public park. Mason was hired to save the family...
The client had an extraordinary air of assurance about her — one could almost say a queenly air.
There was no doubt that she was in some sort of jam, which had started years before when she had won a beauty contest. The question was, why was...
This sparkling mystery novel reveals a sensational new discovery in the field of scientific criminal investigation...
It all began with an auction. If Perry Mason hadn’t made a casual, five-dollar bid he wouldn’t have bought the personal...
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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