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Traps Need Fresh Bait Erle Stanley Gardner

Traps Need Fresh Bait By Erle Stanley Gardner

Traps Need Fresh Bait by Erle Stanley Gardner


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

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Traps Need Fresh Bait by Erle Stanley Gardner

Bertha Cool was purring like a kitten. A client had just hired the agency to investigate a suspected insurance swindle and, in Bertha's glittering eyes, that was just the sort of respectable case they needed. Donald Lam had his doubts but he began looking around for suitable bait to set the trap.

What he didn't know was that the trap was already baIted - and more than ready to spring.

About Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
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 that 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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NLS9781471909269
9781471909269
1471909263
Traps Need Fresh Bait by Erle Stanley Gardner
New
Paperback
The Murder Room
2013-10-14
224
N/A
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