The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery by Gardner, Erle Stanley

The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781613163573)

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The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery by Gardner, Erle Stanley

The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery

$25.95
The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery by Gardner, Erle Stanley

The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery

$25.95
Format: Hardcover
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Bertha Cool is the gruff, tough-talking, corpulent head of her private detective agency, opened after the death of her husband; Donald Lam is her meek, slight, and nervy new hire, who makes up for a lack of boldness with brilliant deductive work. The duo couldn't be any more dissimilar but, with their skills combined, they are an unstoppable force when it comes to solving crimes, as evidenced by their over two dozen successes in the long-running series penned by Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner.

In this, their first outing, Donald Lam is tasked with delivering divorce papers to a man who reportedly made a fortune in rigged slot machines. The only problem is that nobody--not even the police--can find him. Before long, Lam's seemingly-simple assignment finds him caught up in a web of money, mysterious safety deposit boxes, and a gang of toughs every bit as desperate as he is to find the runaway husband.

Reissued for the first time in decades, and originally published under the A.A. Fair pen name, The Bigger They Come is an enjoyable private eye novel replete with puzzling scenarios and a humorous tone. As fast and twisty as anything Gardner ever wrote, the novel (and the series it spawned) is more Paul Drake than Perry Mason, but it is sure to please any fan of the Golden Age whodunnit.

Includes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs.

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
ISBN-10: 1613163576
ISBN-13: 9781613163573
Publisher: American Mystery Classics
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.59w x 0.88d
By Erle Stanley Gardner
By Erle Stanley Gardner
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Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was a prolific American author best known for his works centered on the lawyer-detective Perry Mason. At the time of his death in March of 1970, in Ventura, California, Gardner was "the most widely read of all American writers" and "the most widely translated author in the world," according to social historian Russell Nye. The first Perry Mason novel, The Case of The Velvet Claws, published in 1933, had sold twenty-eight million copies in its first fifteen years. In the mid-1950s, the Perry Mason novels were selling at the rate of twenty thousand copies a day. There have been six motion pictures based on his work and the hugely popular Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr, which aired for nine years and 271 episodes.

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