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The D.A. Goes to Trial Erle Stanley Gardner

The D.A. Goes to Trial By Erle Stanley Gardner

The D.A. Goes to Trial by Erle Stanley Gardner


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'The bestselling author of the century ... a master storyteller' New York Times

The D.A. Goes to Trial Summary

The D.A. Goes to Trial by Erle Stanley Gardner

The case started with a corpse. Nobody knew who he was. Next, a man named John Burke disappeared. But D.A. Doug Selby could not find his body.

Then Mrs Burke swore that the corpse and her missing husband were one and the same man. This should have solved both mysteries. All it did was run the D.A. up two different trees. Sure, the faces of the dead man and John Burke were exactly the same. The only trouble was that their fingerprints were different!

Impossible? That's what Doug Selby thought too - until the killer struck again ...

About Erle Stanley Gardner

Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Erle Stanley Gardner left school in 1909 and attended Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana for just one month before he was suspended for focusing more on his hobby of boxing than his academic studies. Soon after, he settled in California, where he taught himself the law and passed the state bar exam in 1911. The practise of law never held much interest for him, however, apart from as it pertained to trial strategy, and in his spare time he began to write for the pulp magazines that gave Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler their start. Not long after the publication of his first novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, featuring Perry Mason, he gave up his legal practice to write full time. He had one daughter, Grace, with his first wife, Natalie, from whom he later separated. In 1968 Gardner married his long-term secretary, Agnes Jean Bethell, whom he professed to be the real 'Della Street', Perry Mason's sole (although unacknowledged) love interest. He was one of the most successful authors of all time and at the time of his death, in Temecula, California in 1970, is said to have had 135 million copies of his books in print in America alone.

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NLS9781471909382
9781471909382
1471909387
The D.A. Goes to Trial by Erle Stanley Gardner
New
Paperback
The Murder Room
2014-12-14
224
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