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Erle Stanley Gardner was born 17 July 1889 in Malden, Massachusetts.
While working as a lawyer in Ventura, California, he began writing mystery stories.
In all, he wrote 146 books, including 85 Perry Mason mysteries.
The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the title Grand Master in 1962.
He died 11 March 1970, at his ranch near Temecula, California.
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Erle Stanley Gardner Murder Mystery Weekend in Temecula, CA [Nov 2004]
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Richman Trust / Erle Stanley Gardner Building in Ventura, CA
"Perry Mason" comics covers at Comic Book Archive
Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.A. Fair
Bertha Cool & Donald Lam
Mystery Series
series books
official books list {29 total}
"Cool & Lam" tv series pilot [CBS 1958] on IMDb
"The Bigger They Come" [#1 1939]
"Turn On The Heat" [#2 1940]
"Gold Comes In Bricks" [#3 1940]
"Spill The Jackpot" [#4 1941]
"Double or Quits" [#5 1941]
"Owls Don't Blink" [#6 1942]
"Bats Fly At Dusk" [#7 1942]
"Cats Prowl At Night" [#8 1943]
"Give 'Em The Ax" [#9 1944]
"Crows Can't Count" [#10 1946]
"Fools Die On Friday" [#11 1947]
"Bedrooms Have Windows" [#12 1949]
"Top of The Heap" [#13 1952]
"Some Women Won't Wait" [#14 1953]
"Beware The Curves" [#15 1956]
"You Can Die Laughing" [#16 1957]
"Some Slips Don't Show" [#17 1957]
"The Count of Nine" [#18 1958]
"Pass The Gravey" [#19 1959]
"Kept Women Can't Quit" [#20 1960]
"Bachelors Get Lonely" [#21 1961]
"Shills Can't Count Chips" [#22 1961]
"Try Anything Once" [#23 1962]
"Fish or Cut Bait" [#24 1963]
"Up For Grabs" [#25 1964]
"Cut Thin To Win" [#26 1965]
"Widows Wear Weeds" [#27 1966]
"Traps Need Fresh Bait" [#28 1967]
"All Grass Isn't Green" [#29 1970]
Perry Mason
Mystery Series
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most of the Perry Mason books remain out of print
series books
official books list
later Perry Mason novels by Thomas Chastain
Perry Mason movie/tv/tv movies credits at IMDb
"Perry Mason" CBS radio program [1943-55] 267 episodes on CD
"The Case of The Velvet Claws" [#1 1933]
"The Case of The Sulky Girl" [#2 1934]
"The Case of The Lucky Legs" [#3 1934]
"The Case of The Howling Dog" [#4 1934]
"The Case of The Curious Bride" [#5 1934]
"The Case of The Counterfeit Eye" [#6 1935]
"The Case of The Caretaker's Cat" [#7 1935]
"The Case of The Sleepwalker's Niece" [#8 1936]
"The Case of The Stuttering Bishop" [#9 1936]
An Anglican bishop from Australia asks Perry to be ready to deal with nasty rich guy
who had his daughter-in-law charged with manslaughter 20 years back.
"The Case of The Dangerous Dowager" [#10 1937]
"The Case of The Lame Canary" [#11 1937]
"The Case of The Substitute Face" [#12 1938]
As Perry & Della return from Hawaii to San Francisco on a steamer, a woman hires him to help her husband who she fears
embezzled from his employer; on the last night out, a man is murdered and tossed overboard during a storm.
"The Case of The Shoplifter's Shoe" [#13 1938]
"The Case of The Perjured Parrot" [#14 1939]
"The Case of The Rolling Bones" [#15 1939]
"The Case of The Baited Hook" [#16 1940]
"The Case of The Silent Partner" [#17 1940]
"The Case of The Haunted Husband" [#18 1941]
A beautiful young hitchhiker headed for Los Angeles is picked up in
Bakersfield, the driver causes a multi-car
wreck on the Ridge Route, and leaves her to take the blame for the death of another driver.
"The Case of The Empty Tin" [#19 1941]
"The Case of The Drowning Duck" [#20 1942]
"The Case of The Careless Kitten" [#21 1942]
"The Case of The Buried Clock" [#22 1943]
"The Case of The Drowsy Mosquito" [#23 1943]
"The Case of The Crooked Candle" [#24 1944]
"The Case of The Black-Eyed Blonde" [#25 1944]
"The Case of The Golddigger's Purse" [#26 1944]
"The Case of The Half-Wakened Wife" [#27 1945]
"The Case of The Borrowed Brunette" [#28 1946]
"The Case of The Fandancer's Horse" [#29 1947]
"The Case of The Lazy Lover" [#30 1947]
"The Case of The Lonely Heiress" [#31 1948]
"The Case of The Vagabond Virgin" [#32 1948]
"The Case of The Dubious Bridegroom" [#33 1949]
"The Case of The Cautious Coquette" [#34 1949]
"The Case of The Negligent Nymph" [#35 1950]
"The Case of The One-Eye Witness" [#36 1950]
"The Case of The Fiery Fingers" [#37 1951]
"The Case of The Angry Mourner" [#38 1951]
"The Case of The Moth-Eaten Mink" [#39 1952]
The restaurant owner asks Perry for help when a waitress panics & runs out of
his restaurant, gets shot at, runs out into traffic and is hit by a car.
"The Case of The Grinning Gorilla" [#40 1952]
"The Case of The Hesitant Hostess" [#41 1953]
"The Case of The Green-Eyed Sister" [#42 1953]
A beautiful widow hires Perry
about attempt to blackmail her ailing father over taped 'evidence'.
"The Case of The Fugitive Nurse" [#43 1954]
"The Case of The Runaway Corpse" [#44 1954]
A husband leaves a note about his wife poisoning him, to be given to the cops in the event of his death
– but she didn't do any such thing, so she hires Perry Mason.
"The Case of The Restless Redhead" [#45 1954]
"The Case of The Glamorous Ghost" [#46 1955]
"The Case of The Sun Bather's Diary" [#47 1955]
Somebody steals the car & trailer where the daughter of a convicted bank robber has been living.
"The Case of The Nervous Accomplice" [#48 1955]
A lovely wife asks Perry to
halt a real estate deal so that her husband will realize that his sezy client is not really sweet on him.
"The Case of The Terrified Typist" [#49 1956]
"The Case of The Demure Defendant" [#50 1956]
"The Case of The Gilded Lily" [#51 1956]
A happily-married businessman is blackmailed over his wife's past, taken by a lovely moll to a beach motel
to pay the money, is drugged and wakes to find the blackmailer in a pool of blood, shot in the back.
"The Case of The Lucky Loser" [#52 1957]
"The Case of The Screaming Woman" [#53 1957]
"The Case of The Daring Decoy" [#54 1957]
"The Case of The Long Legged Models" [#55 1958]
Lovely ex-showgirl asks Perry to represent her in sale of 40% share in Las Vegas motel inherited from her murdered father.
"The Case of The Foot-Loose Doll" [#56 1958]
"The Case of The Calendar Girl" [#57 1958]
"The Case of The Deadly Toy" [#58 1959]
"The Case of The Mythical Monkeys" [#59 1959]
"The Case of The Singing Skirt" [#60 1959]
"The Case of The Waylaid Wolf" [#61 1960]
"The Case of The Duplicate Daughter" [#62 1960]
"The Case of The Shapely Shadow" [#63 1960]
Loyal secretary of married real estate speculator brings Perry a suitcase of money;
boss is later found murdered in Palmdale and the secretary put on trial.
"The Case of The Spurious Spinster" [#64 1961]
"The Case of The Bigamous Spouse" [#65 1961]
A beautiful young woman asks Perry to test for strychnine, given to her by the husband of her best friend.
"The Case of The Reluctant Model" [#66 1962]
"The Case of The Blonde Bonanza" [#67 1962]
A beautiful girl on the beach has signed a dubious contract that is really about the lost heirs
racket; Perry’s investigation uncovers blackmail and leads to the killing of the blackmailer.
"The Case of The Ice-Cold Hands" [#68 1962]
"The Case of The Mischievous Doll" [#69 1963]
"The Case of The Stepdaughter's Secret" [#70 1963
"The Case of The Amorous Aunt" [#71 1963]
"The Case of The Daring Divorcee" [#72 1964]
A young woman wearing big sunglasses appears at Perry Mason’s office, then leaves, ‘forgetting’
her handbag, which Perry discovers contains a revolver with two shells recently fired.
"The Case of The Phantom Fortune" [#73 1964]
"The Case of The Horrified Heirs" [#74 1964]
A wealthy woman has been given doses of arsenic, and a former legal secretary is busted at the airport with planted drugs.
"The Case of The Troubled Trustee" [#75 1965]
"The Case of The Beautiful Begger" [#76 1965]
"The Case of The Worried Waitress" [#77 1966]
"The Case of The Queenly Contestant" [#78 1967]
"The Case of The Careless Cupid" [#79 1968]
"The Case of The Fabulous Fake" [#80 1969]
"The Case of The Murderous Bride" [#81 1969]
"The Case of The Crimson Kiss" [#82 1971]
"The Case of The Crying Swallow" [#83 1971]
"The Case of The Irate Witness & Other Stories" [#84 1972]
title story [c1953] with Perry Mason; "The Jeweled Butterfly" [c1952], "Something Like A
Pelican" aka 'Lester Leith, Financier' [1942], and "A Man Is Missing" [c1946]
"The Case of The Fenced-In Woman" [#85 1972]
"The Case of The Postponed Murder" [#86 1973]
"Perry Mason" TV series [1957-66]
starring Raymond Burr {as Perry}, Barbara Hale {as Della}, William Hopper {as Paul Drake} & William Talman
{as Hamilton Burger}; won Emmy Awards for Best Actor {RB 1959 & 1961}, Best Actress {BH 1959}
Perry Mason tv series [1957-66] credits at Internet Movie Database
"Perry Mason Returns" [1985 TV-movie/revival]
DB's Perry Mason tv series fansite
JS's Perry Mason tv series & Raymond Burr fansite
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Season 1, Volume 1 (19 episodes of 57-58 season):
Paramount DVD [7/2006] 5 disks for $21.99 Season 1, Volume 2 (20 episodes of 57-58 season): Paramount DVD [5/2007] 5 disks for $21.99 Complete Season 1 box set (all 39 episodes of 57-58 season): Paramount DVD [11/2006] 10 disks for $79.99 [sic] |
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Season 2, Volume 1 (15 episodes of 58-59 season):
Paramount DVD [6/2007] 4 disks for $29.99 Season 2, Volume 2 (15 episodes of 58-59 season): Paramount DVD [11/2007] 4 disks for $28.99 |
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Season 3, Volume 1 (13 episodes of 59-60 season):
Paramount color DVD [8/2008] 3 disks for $34.99 Season 3, Volume 2 (13 episodes of 59-60 season): Paramount color DVD [12/2008] 4 disks for $29.99 
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Season 4, Volume 1 (28 episodes of 60-61 season):
Paramount color DVD [6/2009] 4 disks for $34.99
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"Perry Mason 50th Anniversary Edition" DVD box set [2008]
Paramount DVD set [4/2008] for $36.99 includes 12 episodes: 1 from Season 3, 3 from Season 4, 1 from Season 5, 2 from Season 6, 2 from Season 7, and 3 from Season 9 (one featuring Erle Stanley Gardner!); extras include "Perry Mason Returns" [1985 TV-movie/revival], 3 screen tests, the featurette "The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner", interviews & promos & much more |
"Perry Mason Returns" [1985 TV-movie/revival]
Perry Mason by Other Authors
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"The Case of Too Many Murders" [Summer 89] by Thomas Chastain
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District Attorney Doug Selby
Mystery Series
"The D.A. Calls It Murder" [#1 = 1937]
"They Call It Murder" feature film [1971]
starring Jim Hutton, Jessica Walter, Lloyd Bochner, Leslie Nielsen & Ed Asner; DVD out 2009
"The D.A. Holds A Candle" [#2 = 1938]
"The D.A. Draws A Circle" [#3 = 1939]
"The D.A. Goes To Trial" [#4 = 1940]
"The D.A. Cooks A Goose" [#5 = 1942]
"The D.A. Calls A Turn" [#6 = 1944]
"The D.A. Breaks A Seal" [#7 = 1946]
"The D.A. Takes A Chance" [#8 = 1949]
"The D.A. Breaks An Egg" [#9 = 1949]
Other Fiction
by Erle Stanley Gardner
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"The Adventures of Paul Pry" [stories 1989]
Mysterious Dime Detective pb [2/90] out of print/used
"The Adventures of Paul Pry: Volume 2" [stories 1992]
House of Stratus pb [10/2002] out of print/used
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Amazing Adventures of Lester Leith" [stories 1981]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Blonde In Lower Six" [Carroll & Graf 1990]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Case of The Backward Mule" [D.A. Terry Clane 1946]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Case of The Musical Cow" [Rob Trenton 1950]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Case of The Smoking Chimney" [Gramps Wiggins 1943]
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"The Case of The Turning Tide" [Gramps Wiggins 1941]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Clew of The Forgotten Murder" [written as Carleton Kendrake 1935]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Dead Men's Letters" & Other Short Novels [1990]
Carroll & Graf hardcover [3/90] out of print/used
Carroll & Graf pb [8/91] out of print/used
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Honest Money" & Other Short Novels [1991]
Carroll & Graf [7/91] out of print/used
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Human Zero: The Science Fiction Stories of Erle Stanley Gardner" [1981]
Edited by Alan Scholefield
Wm. Morrow hardcover [1/81] out of print/used
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"Murder Up My Sleeve" [D.A. Terry Clane 1938]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Murderer’s Bride & Other Stories" [1977 pb]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Pay Dirt and Other Stories of Gold Fever & The Western Desert" [1983]
Wm. Morrow hardcover [6/83] out of print/used
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"This Is Murder" [written as Charles G. Kenny 1937]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Two Clues" [rural sheriff Bill Eldon 1947]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Whispering Sands: Stories of Gold Fever & The Western Desert" [1981]
Wm. Morrow hardcover [6/81] out of print/used
Non-Fiction
by Erle Stanley Gardner
"Cops On Campus and Crime In The Streets" [1970]
"The Court of Last Resort" [1952]
"Drifting Down The Delta" [1969]
"Gypsy Days On The Delta" [1967]
"The Hidden Heart of Baja" [1962]
"The Host With The Big Hat" [1970]
"Hovering Over Baja" [1961]
"Hunting Lost Mines By Helicopter" [1965]
"Hunting The Desert Whale" [1960]
"The Land of Shorter Shadows" [1948]
"Mexico's Magic Square" [1968]
"Neighborhood Frontiers" [1954]
"Off The Beaten Track In Baja" [1967]
"This Desert Is Yours" [1963]
"The World of Water" [1964]
Works About
Erle Stanley Gardner
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"The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner" featurette [on 2008 DVD]
not listed on IMDb (4/2009)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Erle Stanley Gardner's Ventura: The Birthplace of Perry Mason" [1996]
by Richard L. Senate
Charon Press hardcover [9/96] out of print/used
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Secrets of The World's Best-Selling Writer: The Storytelling
Techniques of Erle Stanley Gardner" [1980]
by Francis L. Fugate & Roberta B. Fugate
Wm. Morrow hardcover [9/80] out of print/used
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of The Real Perry Mason" [1978]
by mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes
Wm. Morrow hardcover [3/78] out of print/many used
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