The Case of the Deadly Toy by Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Deadly Toy by Erle Stanley Gardner

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

With Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner introduced to American letters the notion of the lawyer as a hero - and a detective - which were remarkable innovationsHe even gave defence lawyers a good name to boot. His Mason books remain tantalising on every page and brilliant -- Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent and Testimony
The bestselling author of the century ... a master storyteller * NEW YORK TIMES *
Beautiful babes, worthy opponents and fancy legal cross-stitching . . . a stellar ending * KIRKUS *
Kingpin among the mystery writers * NEW YORK TIMES *
For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses * LA TIMES *
Gardner has a way of moving the story forward that is almost a lost art: great stretches of dialogue alternate with lively chunks of exposition, and the two work together perfectly, without sacrificing momentum * BOOKLIST *
Amazing originality * NEW YORK TIMES *

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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ISBN 13	9781471908705
ISBN 10	1471908704
Title	The Case of the Deadly Toy
Author	Erle Stanley Gardner
Series	Perry Mason
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Murder Room
Year published	2013-10-14
Number of pages	224
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