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Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped is a glorious return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious.

From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time - comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool.

Ninety-years ago, before Erle Stanley Gardner began writing the very successful Perry Mason series, he wrote for the pulp magazines. The hundreds of pulp magazines that published his works can be difficult to get these days. The pulps were called that because the magazines used cheap wood pulp for its paper, a process that created pages that were not meant to last a century. One of his most popular characters was Lester Leith, the urbane Robin Hood, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, after taking his own commission. Written mostly during the Great Depression, these stories showed wit and humor that Gardner often displayed in his personal life, but infrequently in his works. Only a handful of the Lester Leith stories have appeared since their original publication dates. Hold Cash, Cold Clews will double the number of Leith stories anthologized. This is the fourth collection of Gardner s pulp characters in Crippen & Landru s Lost Classics series

"Private investigators Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, stars of five of Hard Case Crime's most popular novels, return to solve their toughest case yet. Hired to prevent a socialite from poisoning her husband, Donald Lam dreams up an ingenious scheme involving a carton of anchovy paste and a fictitious national ad campaign. But when the whole thing backfires spectacularly and bodies, witnesses, and suspects start piling up, it'll take every ounce of Donald's brainpower and Bertha's bruising ruthlessness to keep the police at bay - and a killer from getting away with murder."--

THE FIRST WOMAN WOULDN T EVEN GIVE HER NAME. BUT THE CLEAR, FEMININE VOICE FALTERED CONSIDERABLY OVER THE QUESTION OF WHAT PERRY MASON S CHARGES WOULD BE FOR A DAY IN COURT - A DAY DOING NOTHING BUT LISTENING. अ]ॅडिसन बाल्फोरचा 'बाल्फोर अलाईड असोसिएट्स' हा उद्योग व प्रॉपर्टी त्याच्या पुतण्याच्या नावे टेड बाल्फोरच्या नावे करण्याचे त्याने ठरवले आहे. टेडच्या आई-वडिलांच्या मृत्यूनंतर गुथ्री व त्याची बायको डोर्लाने टेडला वाढविले आहे. अ]ॅडिसनला असे कळते, की टेडकडून गाडीच्या बाबतीत काही भानगड झाली आहे. टेडने मोटारच्या धडकेने कुणाचा जीव घेतला आहे. त्यामुळे टेडचा वारसाहक्क अ]ॅडिसनकडून रद्द केला जाण्याची शक्यता असते. नंतर असं कळतं, की ती कार कोणी स्त्री चालवत होती. तिनेच टेडला त्याच्या घरी सोडलं व त्याचे कपडे वगैरे बदलले व गाडीची चावी त्याच्या पायजम्याच्या खिशात ठेवली. टेडच्या गाडीच्या धडकेमुळे जो माणूस मेलेला असतो, त्याच्या शवाची तपासणी केली अ

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

From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time -- comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool.

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner - at his death the best-selling American writer of all time - comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency: TURN ON THE HEAT.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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