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The Knife Slipped (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783299270)
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THE LOST DETECTIVE NOVEL BY THE CREATOR OF PERRY MASON HBO series Perry Mason airs June 2020 starring Matthew Rhys in the titular role. Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped was meant to be the second book in the series, but shelved when Gardner's publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool's tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities--however shocking for 1939--shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists. Donald Lam has never been cooler--not even when played by Frank Sinatra on the U.S. Steel Hour of Mystery in 1946. Bertha Cool has never been tougher. And Erle Stanley Gardner has never been better.
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
ISBN-10: 1783299274
ISBN-13: 9781783299270
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2016
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 12/27/2016
THE LOST DETECTIVE NOVEL BY THE CREATOR OF PERRY MASON HBO series Perry Mason airs June 2020 starring Matthew Rhys in the titular role. Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped was meant to be the second book in the series, but shelved when Gardner's publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool's tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities--however shocking for 1939--shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists. Donald Lam has never been cooler--not even when played by Frank Sinatra on the U.S. Steel Hour of Mystery in 1946. Bertha Cool has never been tougher. And Erle Stanley Gardner has never been better.
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
ISBN-10: 1783299274
ISBN-13: 9781783299270
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2016
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 12/27/2016
By Erle Stanley Gardner
xOne of the best-selling authors of all time, Erle Stanley Gardner's greatest creations include crusading attorney Perry Mason (star of more than eighty novels, a long-running TV series and TV movies) and the hardboiled detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, who appeared in more than two dozen adventures of their own. An attorney himself, Gardner also founded the Court of Last Resort, a group that investigated criminal cases they believed had ended in wrong convictions.
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