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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was a prolific American author. A former lawyer, he is best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.

The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A. Fair, Carl Franklin Ruth, Carleton Kendrake, Charles M. Green, Charles J. Kenny, Edward Leaming, Grant Holiday, Kyle Corning, Les Tillray, Robert Parr, Stephen Caldwell, and once as the Perry Mason character Della Street ("The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts"). Three stories were published as Anonymous ("A Fair Trial", "Part Music and Part Tears", and "You Can't Run Away from Yourself" aka "The Jazz Baby")

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Born 17 July 1889
Died 11 March 1970

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    Cover of edition surlacorderaide0000gard First published in 1933 — 28 editions
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  • Cover of: The case of : the gilded lily: the daring decoy, the fiery fingers, the lucky loser, the calendar girl, the deadly toy, the mischievous doll, the amorous aunt

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    First published in 1957 — 18 editions
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    First published in 1955 — 17 editions
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Born 17 July 1889
Died 11 March 1970

Subjects

Fiction, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Large type books, Lawyers, fiction, Trials (Murder), Fiction, legal, Detective and mystery stories, Mason, perry (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, California, fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction in English, Translations into Russian, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, crime, Description and travel, Mason, Perry (Fictitious character), Public prosecutors, Lawyers, Crime, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, American, Popular Print Disabled Books, American Legal stories, American fiction

Places

United States, Baja California (Mexico), California, Los Angeles, New Southwest, Mexico, Sacramento River (Calif.), American Desert (Armagosa Creek), Arizona, Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula), Baker Street, CA, Delta Region, Delta Region (Calif.), Gaitlin, Grand Island, Jamaica, London, Nebraska, Puget Sound (Wash.), Sacramento River, Santa Monica, Southern California, West (U.S.), southern California

People

Perry Mason, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Bertha Cool (fictional characters), Della Street, Donal Lam, Adam Greenlaw, Amos Deigan, Archie, Baby Hortense, Bertha Cool, Bob Zane, Buck Owens, Burt Robeson, Carl Montaine, Carlos, Clayton Gilman, Craig Boardman, David, Dick Sprague, Donald Lam, Donna Stigman, Duncan Ross, Edward Hollis, Elizabeth Taylor, Eve Tobin

Time

1950's, 1890, 1930's, 1958, 20th century, 20th century mysteries, Around 1930, Late 1940's, carnival, early 1960s, mid-1930's

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Alternative names

  • A. A. Fair
  • Kyle Corning
  • Charles M. Green
  • Carleton Kendrake
  • Charles J. Kenny
  • Robert Parr
  • Les Tillray
  • Stephen Caldwell
  • Della Street
  • Carl Franklin Ruth
  • Edward Leaming
  • Grant Holiday
  • A.A.Fair
  • Gardner Es
  • Gardner E.S.
  • A A.Fair

History

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March 6, 2024 Edited by mheiman merge authors
March 4, 2024 Edited by mheiman Cleaned up alternate names
March 4, 2024 Edited by mheiman merge authors
March 4, 2024 Edited by mheiman Cleaned up alternate names
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import