GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY

1889–1970, American detective-story writer, b. Malden, Mass. He served as a trial lawyer for many years. About 1921 he began writing detective stories for magazines; after that time he produced an extraordinary number of novels and stories noted for their fast action and clever legal devices. His most famous character was the lawyer Perry Mason. Gardner often wrote under two pseudonyms, A. A. Fair and Carleton Kendrake.

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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 13
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; Cambridge University Press, 1911
Subjects: History, Modern
...WARD LITT.D. G. W. PROTHERO LITT.D. STANLEY LEATHES M.A. VOLUME XIII GENEALOGICAL...Edmund Walker Head. 1861 Charles Stanley Monck Visct. Monck. TABLE 131 continued...1888 Frederick Arthur Lord Stanley of Preston. 1893 John Campbell...
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Investigations of the Attack on Pearl Harbor: Index to Government Hearings
Book by Stanley H. Smith; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack On, 1941--Indexes
...to Government Hearings Compiled by Stanley H. Smith Bibliographies and Indexes...to government hearings / compiled by Stanley H. Smith. p. cm. -- Bibliographies and...Attack on, 1941--Indexes. I. Smith, Stanley H. II. Series. D767.92.I58 1990 940...
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Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature
Book by Terry White, Michael A. Kahn; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: Legal Stories--Bibliography, Legal Stories--History And Criticism
...two Perry Mason stories by Erle Stanley Gardner: 1) The Case of the Howling...output, to call the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, that one-man Perry Mason factory...briefly noted here, particularly Erle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Train, and Henry Cecil...
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American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide
Book by Larry Landrum; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Detective And Mystery Stories, American--Bibliography, Detective And Mystery Stories, American--History And Criticism
...Magazine (1932-1949). ). 1933 Erle Stanley Gardner, best-selling Perry Mason novels...Horses, Dont They? 1936-38 Erle Stanley Gardner best-sellers: The Case of the...possibilities for subsequent writers. Erle Stanley Gardner dem- onstrated with his first...
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The Death Penalty in America: An Anthology
Book by Hugo Adam Bedau; Aldine Publishing, 1964
Subjects: Capital Punishment--United States
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journal articles on: Gardner Erle Stanley  - 6 results

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The Nineteenth (1992) Supplement to a Cross-Referenced Index of Short Fiction Anthologies and Author-Title Listings
Journal article by Landon C. Burns, Elizabeth Buckmaster, Jane E. Cooper; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Anthologies--Bibliography, English literature--Collections and collecting, Short stories--Bibliography
...Have a Nice Death" Gardner, Erle Stanley "Danger Out of the Past...I. O. U.--One Life" Ellin, Stanley "Unacceptable Procedures...
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Evelyn Waugh's Early Novels: The Limits of Fiction
Journal article by Richard P. Lynch; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 30, 1994
Subjects: Literature and society--Analysis, Literature--Philosophy, Waugh, Evelyn--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...confessed, would be a detective story. Not like Graham Greene, but rather like the story of the Agatha Christie or Erle Stanley Gardner sort, where the clues are given and an actual solution takes place. I admire very much books of pure action" (45...
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Getting Started
Journal article; Social Education, Vol. 65, 2001
Subjects: Geography--Study and teaching, Lesson planning--Technique, Social sciences--Study and teaching
...teacher with a cabin on the ranch. The family also hosted many visitors at the ranch including well-known writer Erle Stanley Gardner, and famous botanists Phillip Munz and Edmund Jaeger. Jaeger, while identifying new desert plant species, named...
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The Dream Screen in 'The Moviegoer
Journal article by Lewis A. Lawson; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 30, 1994
Subjects: Existential psychology--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Percy, Walker--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Psychoanalysis and literature--Analysis, The Moviegoer (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...3) But any reader of "The Man on the Train" knows that the effect of such a treatment is only temporary: "An Erle Stanley Gardner novel is a true exercise in alienation. A man who finishes his twentieth Perry Mason is that much nearer total...
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Watching the Detectives: Reading Dime Novels and Hard-Boiled Detective Stories in Context
Journal article by Jay Hopler; Journal of Social History, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (Book), Hard-boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines (Book), Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America (Book), The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (Book)
...in a blizzard in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, almost three years later. My reluctance to read the work of writers like Erle Stanley Gardner, Frederick Nebel and W.T. Ballard was a result of having been told by every academic I had ever encountered that...
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magazine articles on: Gardner Erle Stanley  - 5 results

 
 
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The Irrepressible
Magazine article by Linda Bridges; National Review, Vol. 60, March 24, 2008
Subjects: Buckley, William F., Jr., Periodical editors
The Irrepressible. by Linda Bridges ERLE STANLEY GARDNER, the creator of Perry Mason, is said to have kept four secretaries busy at once taking his novels in dictation and transcribing...
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Beyond the Wild Wood
Magazine article by Alan Jacobs; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Annotated Wind in the Willows (Novel)--Book reviews, The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition (Novel)--Book reviews
...immersed as I was in the Perry Mason mysteries of Erle Stanley Gardner, the space operas of Robert A. Heinlein, and the manly...many years. The first, and still the best, was Martin Gardners magnificent Annotated Alice (of Wonderland, that is...
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Stephen King's American Apocalypse
Magazine article by Ross Douthat; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2007
Subjects: American culture--Portrayals, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Works, Horror stories, Horror tales, King, Stephen (American writer)--Works, Popular culture--Portrayals
...fulfillment of their genre. This helps explain why his readership is so vast--rivaling those of Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner at their peak--and why his cultural footprint is much more significant than you would expect even from the emperor...
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Wake-Up Call from Watts
Magazine article by John Lowe; World and I, Vol. 13, May 1998
Subjects: Fiction--Authorship, Mosley, Walter--Authorship
...roll in the mid90s, Mosley could have simply written the sixth entry for this increasingly popular series, just as Erle Stanley Gardner did for years with his Perry Mason mysteries, but he seems to have decided to write the more socially conscious...
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The Mystery as Novel of Manners
Magazine article by Linda Bridges; National Review, Vol. 44, January 20, 1992
Subjects: Archer, Lew--Criticism and interpretation, Detective and mystery stories--Social aspects, Detective fiction--Social aspects, Fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Francis, Dick--Criticism and interpretation, Mystery fiction--Social aspects, Sayers, Dorothy--Criticism and interpretation
...editorial on courtroom delay, as we meet the people whose substance is wasted unto the third generation. Here is an Erle Stanley Gardner character on a later courts unreliability (written, by the way, in 1942 - before Earl Warren, but after FDRs Court-packing...


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newspaper articles on: Gardner Erle Stanley  - 8 results

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Quality Companion That Stands the Test of Time; the Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
Newspaper article by F E Pardoe; The Birmingham Post (England), March 18, 2000
Subjects: Book publishing, Oxford University Press, Publishing industry
...alphabetical order.The opening topics in G, for example, are: Gaboriau, Emile; Gambling, Illegal; Gangsters; Gardening; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Garve, Andrew; Gault, William Campbell; Gay Characters and Perspectives; Genius; Genteel Woman Sleuth; and so...
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On This Day in ..
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 17, 2009
...much he asked for two complete encores. 1841: The first issue of the magazine Punch was published in London. 1889: Erle Stanley Gardner, US author and lawyer who created Perry Mason, was born. 1917: The British Royal family adopted the name House...
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'Mason' on DVD
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 11, 2006
Subjects: Perry Mason (Television program), Video recording industry, Video recordings
...one for Barbara Hale, who played good-natured secretary Della Street. The successful show, based on the books by Erle Stanley Gardner, also spawned made-for-television movies that were produced until Mr. Burrs death in 1993. "I always believe my...
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A Store as Unique as Books It Sells: Lantern Leads Way to the Rare, Quirky and Specialized
Newspaper article by Gary Tischler; The Washington Times, July 18, 1996
...much alive: popular writers who were the Stephen Kings and Anne Rices of their day: Kenneth Robert, Ross McDonald, Erle Stanley Gardner, Kathleen Windsor, Ben Ames Williams and Paul Gallico. There is one lonely little rack of paperbacks - old paperbacks...
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Paperbacks
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 13, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews
...was an international media sensation, but the police investigation was botched and his killer escaped justice. Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, called it the greatest murder mystery of all time. James Owen has re-examined the...
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Gardner, Erle Stanley
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY 1889 1970, American detective-story writer, b. Malden, Mass. He served...legal devices. His most famous character was the lawyer Perry Mason. Gardner often wrote under two pseudonyms, A. A. Fair and Carleton Kendrake...


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