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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: The case of the drowning duck : a Perry Mason mystery

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  • Cover of: Erle Stanley Gardner, seven complete novels: Perry Mason in the Case of, the glamorous ghost, the terrified typist, the lucky loser, The screaming woman, the long-legged models, the foot-loose doll, the waylaid wolf.

    First published in 1979 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hunting lost mines by helicopter.

    First published in 1965 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Cops on campus and crime in the streets.

    First published in 1970 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Neighborhood frontiers: desert country, Puget Sound country, Yucatan Peninsula, Yaqui River, barranca country.

    First published in 1954 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Knife Slipped

    First published in 2016 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Oxford book of detective stories

    First published in 2000 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The blonde in lower six

    First published in 1990 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1982 — 1 edition
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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, Trials (Murder), Fiction, legal, Lawyers, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mason, perry (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, California, fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction in English, Open Library Staff Picks, Translations into Russian, Mason, Perry (Fictitious character), Description and travel, Fiction, crime, Lawyers, American Legal stories, American fiction, Detective and mystery stories, American, Crime, Crime, fiction, Detective stories

Places

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

Time

1950's, 1890, 1930's, 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

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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