 The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933), 1953 U.S. paperback edition
 The Case of the Negligent Nymph (1956), 1958 Pan paperback edition. 186 pages Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 Malden, Massachusetts – March 11, 1970 Temecula, California) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (445x679, 646 KB) Summary The Case of the Velvet Claws, copyright 1933 by Erle Stanley Gardner. ...
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July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ...
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Life
Gardner graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1909, and received his only formal legal education at Valparaiso University School of Law. He attended law school for approximately 1 month, was suspended from school when his interest in boxing became a demonstration, then settled in California where he became a self-taught attorney and passed the state bar exam in 1911. He opened his own law office in Merced, California, but soon joined the firm of I. W. Stewart in Oxnard, staying there until 1918. In 1912 he married Natalie Frances Talbert, they had a daughter, Grace. Later he moved to Ventura, California where he practiced law until 1933. Since 1937 he had lived in Temecula, California. In 1968 he married his long-time secretary Agnes Jean Bethell (1902-2002), the "real Della Street". Palo Alto Senior High School is the older of the two high schools in Palo Alto, California, United States. ...
The Valparaiso University School of Law (known colloquially as Valpo Law) is located on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. ...
Merced is the county seat of Merced County, California in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. ...
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Work Innovative and restless in his nature, he was frankly bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. In his spare time, he began to write for the Pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith — a parody of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey — and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation: the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than eighty novels. With the success of Perry Mason he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely, except for non-fiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science. when i was 8 i pooped a hammer and a candle and mickle jackson Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ...
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. ...
Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an author of crime stories and novels. ...
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ...
Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. ...
The Western United States, also referred to as the American West or simply The West, traditionally refers to the region constituting the westernmost states of the United States (see geographical terminology section for further discussion of these terms). ...
Gardner also devoted thousands of hours to a project called "The Court of Last Resort", which he undertook with his many friends in the forensic, legal and investigative communities. The project sought to review and, if appropriate, to reverse, miscarriages of justice against possibly innocent criminal defendants who were convicted owing to poor original legal representation and/or to the inadequate, careless or malicious actions of police and prosecutors and most especially, with regard to the abuse or misinterpretation of medical and other forensic evidence. The resulting 1952 book earned Gardner his only Edgar Award, in the Best Fact Crime category. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ...
The character of Perry Mason was portrayed in various Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s, and eventually became a long-running TV series with Raymond Burr as the title character. Gardner made an appearance as a judge in the final episode of the original series. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mason was revived for a series of made-for-TV movies featuring surviving members of the original cast, including Burr. Raymond Burr Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was an actor, most known for his roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. ...
Under the penname A. A. Fair he also wrote a series of novels about private detectives Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. He also wrote another noteworthy series of novels about District Attorney Doug Selby and his opponent, the rascally Alphonse Baker Carr. This series is interesting in that it is an inversion of the motif of the Perry Mason novels, with prosecutor Selby being portrayed as the courageous and imaginative crime solver and his perennial antagonist A.B. Carr being a wily shyster whose clients are always "as guilty as hell". Bertha Cool is a fictional American detective created by Erle Stanley Gardner under his penname A. A. Fair. ...
Donald Lam is a fictional American detective created by Erle Stanley Gardner under his penname A. A. Fair. ...
Doug Selby is a fictional creation of Erle Stanley Gardner. ...
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