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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books on: Gardner Erle Stanley  - 82 results

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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
...Man (1963) features the entrapment of a black doctor. Hughes also wrote an affectionate biography of Erle Stanley Gardner- Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case o f the Real Perry Mason (1978). See also Lawrence J. Oliver, Jr., The Dark...
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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
...the recurring characters. 591. Gardner, Erle Stanley. A.A. Fair, pseud. All Grass...London: Heinemann, 1970. Gardner was born in Maiden, Massachusetts...jail and got him expelled. (Gardner, a boxer in his teen years...
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Wrongful Conviction: International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice
Book by C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias; Temple University Press, 2008
Subjects: Judicial Error
...Fugitive, The, 3 Furman v. Georgia, 93, 112 n 1 Fuster, Frank, 21, 25 n 5, 26 n 15 Gardner, Billy Conn, 103 104 Gardner, Erle Stanley, 76 Gardner v. Texas, 103 Gerald, 201 Germany: appeals system in, 293 294; incidence of life sentences...
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A Dictionary of Dates
Book by Cyril Leslie Beeching; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Anniversaries--Dictionaries, Calendars, Chronology, Historical
...Gandhi, Mahatma 30 Jan.; 2 Oct. Gandhi, Rajiv 21 May; 20 Aug. Garbo, Greta 18 Sept. Gardner, Ava 24 Dec. Gardner, Erle Stanley 17 July Gardner, Dame Helen 13 Feb. Garfield, James Abram 2 July; 19 Sept.; 5 Oct.; 19 Nov. Garibaldi...
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Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, English & American: English & American
Book by John W. Cousin, D. C. Browning; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1958
Subjects: American Literature--Bio-Bibliography, English Literature--Bio-Bibliography, Fiction
...nineteenth-century historians. Gardner, Erle Stanley 17 July 1889- , detective story...Opinion showed that in his own time Gardner was the most popular detective...Conan Doyle being placed second. Gardner also wrote mystery novels under...
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Between the Sheets: on Reading Jack Spicer and Erle Stanley Gardner
Journal article by Dodie Bellamy; Chicago Review, Vol. 55, 2010
Subjects: Careers, Gardner, Erle Stanley, Novels, Poetry, Poets, Spicer, Jack, Writers
...Reading Jack Spicer and Erle Stanley Gardner by Dodie Bellamy...and Lam series Erie Stanley Gardner wrote under...sleazoid covers. Erie Stanley Gardner (1889-1970...and Raymond Chandler, Gardner blossomed in the pugnacious...California terrain of Gardners novels must have resonated...
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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
...Stolen" Gallant, Mavis "Up North" Gardner, John "The Warden" Gordimer, Nadine...Morning, with Jacka ls" Robinson, Kim Stanley "A History of the Twentieth Cent...Antonia "Have a Nice Death" Gardner, Erle Stanley "Danger Out of the Past...
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Another Source for "The Raven"
Journal article by Allen F. Stein; American Notes & Queries, Vol. 9, 1971
Subjects: Bibliography, Literature--Miscellanea, Questions And Answers
...Dryden, Amphitryon 1690 , act iii, sc. 1); "Are you whistling in the dark to keep your courage up?" ( Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Silent Partner 1940 , ch. 9). In some recent cases it has come to mean "guessing or acting...
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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...
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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.
...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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magazine articles on: Gardner Erle Stanley  - 6 results

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Innocence Projects
Magazine article by Amanda Buck; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Vol. 28, May/Jun 2005
Subjects: Attorneys, Convictions, DNA fingerprints, Evidence, Journalists, Moushey, Bill, Munchinski, David, Murders & murder attempts, Neufeld, Peter J, Scheck, Barry
...Mystery novelist and lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner paved the way for future...attorney Perry Mason, Gardner first explored the case...murder in California. Gardners investigation proved Lindleys innocence. Gardner put together a group...
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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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Resources
Magazine article by Tori Moss; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Vol. 31, September 2008
Subjects: Criminal investigations, Data bases, Genetic testing, Human Genome Project, Journals, Police reports, Rape, Studies, Unsolved crimes
...resurgence of innocence projects throughout the country, including The Court of Last Resort that novelist and lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner began in the 1940s. (May/ June 2005) * "Police Confessions: Records review shows cops using illegal, coercive...
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Killing Them in Europe
Magazine article by Donald Dewey; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 91, Autumn 2003
Subjects: Books, Europe, Mankell, Henning, Retail sales, Writers
...has been the success of the series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In a phenomenon that would have made Erle Stanley Gardner envious in the United States, some 11 million hardcover and paperback copies of the procedurals have been sold...
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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...years. The first, and still the best, was Martin Gardners magnificent Annotated Alice (of Wonderland, that...
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newspaper articles on: Gardner Erle Stanley  - 13 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
...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...
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What Book.?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 5, 2010
Subjects: Books
...moved on to Black Beauty, Little Women -- all the usual suspects. Then it was crime: every Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dorothy L Sayers with her laidback detective, Lord Peter Wimsey. Then Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, I certainly...
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Weekend QUIZ
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 25, 2006
...Zoeggeler Rockall North Pacific Ocean bordering El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua Christmas Day, 2004. Answers 2: Erle Stanley Gardner American Montserrat 1975. Answers 3: Graham Greene David Blunkett Bangladesh 1956. Answers 4: Boris Johnson...
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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...
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Quiz Opedia
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 14, 2010
...1930), Margery Allingham (1904-1966), Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), Agatha Christie (1890-1976) Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970), Alexander McCall Smith (1948-) Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957) 10. The languages are Spanish...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gardner Erle Stanley  - 1 result

 
 
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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...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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