Erle Stanley Gardner
17 July 1889 – 11 March 1970
394 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was a prolific American author. A former lawyer, he is best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A. Fair, Carl Franklin Ruth, Carleton Kendrake, Charles M. Green, Charles J. Kenny, Edward Leaming, Grant Holiday, Kyle Corning, Les Tillray, Robert Parr, Stephen Caldwell, and once as the Perry Mason character Della Street ("The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts"). Three stories were published as Anonymous ("A Fair Trial", "Part Music and Part Tears", and "You Can't Run Away from Yourself" aka "The Jazz Baby")
Also published as: A. A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Robert Parr
Most-read books
The case of the velvet claws
4 · 1933 · 88 want to read
The case of the crooked candle
3.4 · 1940 · 54 want to read
The case of the mythical monkeys
3 · 1959 · 48 want to read
Perry Mason
4 · 1989 · 52 want to read
Cults!
1983 · 49 want to read
The Case of the Curious Bride
3.7 · 1934 · 33 want to read
The Case of the Rolling Bones
3.5 · 1939 · 31 want to read
The case of the cautious coquette; The case of the crimson kiss; The case of the crying swallow
1949 · 30 want to read
The case of the careless kitten
5 · 1942 · 32 want to read
The case of the beautiful beggar
2 · 1960 · 32 want to read
The case of the sulky girl
3.7 · 1933 · 24 want to read
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
1982 · 32 want to read
The case of the stuttering bishop
4 · 1936 · 18 want to read
The case of the shoplifter's shoe
3.7 · 1938 · 24 want to read
The Case of the Baited Hook
3.7 · 1940 · 21 want to read
The case of the foot-loose doll
5 · 1958 · 23 want to read
The case of the lucky legs
3 · 1931 · 23 want to read
The case of the haunted husband
3.5 · 1941 · 23 want to read
A Perry Mason omnibus
5 · 1956 · 28 want to read
The case of the drowning duck
3.5 · 1942 · 22 want to read
The case of the counterfeit eye
4 · 1935 · 17 want to read
The case of the lame canary
3.5 · 1937 · 19 want to read
The case of the gilded lily
5 · 1956 · 22 want to read
The Case Of The Worried Waitress (A Perry Mason Mystery)
5 · 1966 · 17 want to read