Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason
by Dorothy B. Hughes
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Adequate celeb bio of the prolific but spotty originator of Perry Mason.
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- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters
- Erle Stanley Gardner; Perry Mason; Ellery Queen; Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler; Marlene Dietrich (show all 9); Dr. Sam Sheppard; Caryl Chessman; Raymond Burr
- Important places
- Los Angeles, California, USA; Ventura County, California, USA; Oxnard, California, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Baja California, Mexico; Temecula, California, USA (show all 7); University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
- First words
- The most noted lawyer of the twentieth century is a Los Angeles attorney named Perry Mason.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The final words seem to belong Pinky Brier, who wrote, " . . . and while it may have been said of others, I believe is more sincerely said of Erle Stanley Gardner, that no matter what age he died, Erle Stanley Gardner died young."
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- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PS3513 .A6322 .Z68 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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