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EMERALDS ARE FOR EVIL Shirley was sultry, sexy, smashing-a sweet young thing to make a sugar daddy's mouth water. This luscious lass loved pretty baubles, so no wonder men showered her with jewels. But when a deluge of emeralds turned into a reign of terror, Shirley needed someone to bail her out. That brought Bertha Cool and Donald Lam into the act, as the indomitable detective duo discovered that emeralds could be a girl's worst enemy when they carried a price tag of murder...Tags
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My second Gardner book, it's better than the first one I read. The story has several twists and turns, and is paced well. I quite enjoyed it.
Un hombre contrata a la agencia de detectives Cool y Lam para que averigüe por qué la heredera de una herencia de la que es co-fideicomisario, ha vendido una valiosa joya con esmeraldas. Las investigaciones de Donald Lam lo llevarán hasta el otro co-fideicomisario de la herencia, al que encontrará muerto junto a la jaula de su cuervo amaestrado. Lam, desconfiando del hombre que le ha contratado, decide seguir investigando el caso por cuenta propia lo que le llevará a enfrentarse a su socia Bertha Cool.
Dec 5, 2010Spanish
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Mystery writer Erle Gardner was born on July 17, 1889 in Malden, Massachusetts. In 1902, he had moved to Oroville, CA. His parents could not afford to send a second son to college, so he worked in a legal office as a clerk reading law. He spent a short time at Valparaiso University in Indiana but had to drop out because of an illegal boxing show more exhibition. He continued to travel throughout California and read law at several law offices and finally passed the bar in 1911, at the age of 21. He married Natalie Francis Beatrice Talbert on April 9, 1912. In 1916, he formed the Law Firm of Orr and Gardner in Venture, CA. Gardner used many pseudonyms such as Charles Green, Kyle Corning and Grant Holiday. While working as an attorney, he began writing fiction. In 1921, "Nellie's Naughty Nighty" was published in the pulp magazine Breezy Stories. He had a goal of writing 100,000 words a month and would sometimes write two or more stories a day. In 1923, "The Shrieking Skeleton" was sold to the Black Mask Magazine. In the 1930's, Gardner had two manuscripts that were rejected and than "rediscovered" by Thayer Hobson, the president of the William Morrow Publishing Company, and rewritten as courtroom mysteries. During this process, the character Perry Mason was born. In 1933, the first Perry Mason book was written, "The Case of the Velvet Claws." The next one was entitled "The Case of the Sulky Girl" and they were followed by more than eighty additional Mason mysteries. Gardner died on March 11, 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Crows Can't Count
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- Bertha Cool; Donald Lam
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- The man who sat across the desk from Bertha Cool looked at though he didn't like the smell of the office.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Yours always, Dona.
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