Erle Stanley Gardner — creator of Perry Mason — was the bestselling author of detective fiction of all time. Many of his best early short novels originally appeared in the famous Black Mask magazine alongside Dashiell Hammett and Raymond...
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...
This was one case when Bertha Cool didn’t see much of her partner, Donald Lam. This time he was living with the clients instead of running up expensive hotel bills. Still, it made it even harder for Bertha to keep tabs on him.
But she had to...
Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, was one of the leading writers for Black Mask, the legendary hard-boiled crime fiction magazine. Although Perry Mason never appeared in its pages, Black Mask in the early 1930s published a series of...
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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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...
“You’ll have a tombstone on your chest, roses growin’ all around it, too, if you tie into that pair,” Mugs Magoo had warned Paul Pry. But the famous gang buster only laughed as he planned his next baffling deal — muscling artists were...