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Bedrooms Have Windows is the 12th book of the 28-book strong Cool and Lam series that the creator of Perry Mason wrote under the pen name AA Fair. If you are new to the series, it is a terrific hardboiled detective series featuring a mismatched pair of detectives. Bertha Cool is a heavyset loudmouthed penny-pincher. Donald Lam is slightly built, has a knack for solving confusing cases, and a magnetic attraction for beautiful women.
This story is all about a femme fatale that catches Lam's eye while he is taking a break from another case. A "small, well-formed package of dynamite. A pocket edition Venus - high-breasted, thin-waisted, smooth-hipped -with large brown eyes and taffy-colored hair." There are no-tell motel rendevouses, show more nightclubs, prowlers, peeping toms, maniacs on the loose, cheating spouses, and, of course, murder most foul. And Lam finds himself suddenly up to his eyeballs in all of it and a sex crazed murder suspect to boot.
It is, as all the books in this series are, a smooth easy read that draws the reader in quickly. At times, they are so many players and so many criss-crossing motives that it can be a little confusing, but Lam manages to figure it all out before its too late. A fine read. show less
Donald Lam agrees to serve as "escort" for a very attractive woman who cannot enter a cocktail lounge without a male "escort". Later they go to a motel and she vanishes.
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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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- Canonical title
- Bedrooms Have Windows
- Original title
- Bedrooms Have Windows, 1949
- Original publication date
- 1949
- People/Characters
- Bertha Cool; Donald Lam; Frank Sellers
- Important places*
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- First words*
- Sie war ein zierliches Geschöpf, ein kleines, wohlgeformtes Paket Dynamit.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Es wird gut sein, wenn wir ihn gemeinsam vornehmen.
- Original language
- English
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