![]() The ones featuring private eye Bertha Cool and her assistant Donald Lam were second only to Perry Mason in Gardner’s oeuvre he was writing novels about them up until the 1970s, 29 in all. Doug Selby to his stories about masked outlaw the Patent-Leather Kid. But he was the hell of a pulp writer back in the day and had several different successful series apart from Mason, ranging from the adventures of tough D.A. ![]() Perry Mason tends to overshadow everything else Erle Stanley Gardner did. The first is another Cool and Lam novel from Erle Stanley Gardner, long out of print: Turn On The Heat. ![]() Their mission statement is twofold– to reprint ‘lost’ classic crime fiction, and to continue that hard-boiled tradition with new, original novels. Hard Cases! Hard Case Crime continues to send me cool books and I continue to enjoy them pretty much unreservedly. But here are a few things I was able to distract myself with over the last couple of weeks. Ergo, I haven’t had much time to read books or watch movies, let alone write about them afterward. Yeah, that whole being a grown-up thing is a giant time-suck. ![]() ![]() Really, it’s been like the joke John Fugelsang tells - “We went camping and sitting around the fire that night, the kids wanted a horror story. Truthfully, we have had a lot going on here lately car troubles, work stuff, medical stuff. ![]()
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