Beware the Curves

by A. A. Fair

Cool and Lam (15)

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John Dittmar Ansel walked into the Cool-Lam office and asked them to trace a man named Karl, who, six years before, gave him an idea for a story. Donald Lam - always the suspicious one - immediately smelled a rat. And his nose had not betrayed him: investigation proved that Mr Ansel wasn't a writer at all; and Karl had died by a bullet. Bertha Cool and Donald Lam decided that this was a case worth pursuing, and before long they found they were not the only ones with a vested interest in the show more six-year-old mystery. show less

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Good non Perry Mason book by Gardner
Nessuno potrà negare che Attenti alle curve sia un giallo perfetto. È persino sconcertante, tant'è originale. A un certo punto, la protagonista dirà il nome del vero assassino di suo marito, e voi vedrete Donald Lam e la sua grassa socia Bertha Cool alla ricerca di una prova qualsiasi per incriminarlo. La polizia, invece, tende un discutibile tranello per accalappiare quello che ritiene l'uccisore: costui non riuscirà a sottrarsi alla terribile accusa. Ma dovrà proprio a tutti i costi pagare per un delitto che avrebbe commesso volentieri, ma di cui non si è macchiato? O c'è ancora una sottile sfumatura giuridica che lo salverà? A quell'altro, l'omicida autentico, ci penserà poi una ragazza astuta, dalle iniziative show more imprevedibili. È proprio il caso di dire che, se il delinquente ha pensato a tutto per mettere insieme un assassinio perfetto, e apparentemente c'è riuscito, avrebbe dovuto poi stare attentissimo alle curve ... perché lo san tutti che certe curve sono pericolose. Ma già, di quali « curve» si tratta? show less

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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*
Varokaa kurveja
Original title
Beware the Curves
Original publication date
1956
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Bertha Cool; Donald Lam
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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PZ3Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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