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Written by lawyer-turned-author Erle Stanley Gardner, the column appeared in the monthly magazine Argosy for ten years beginning in September 1948. [1] Gardner enlisted assistance from police, private detectives, and other professional experts to examine the cases of dozens of convicts who maintained their innocence long after their appeals ...
After a temporary typist who enjoys trick photography has left Mason's office in a tearing hurry, he and Della find some diamonds stuck in chewing gum on the bottom of her desk. Her involvement in a murder trial features an ending unique in the Mason series.This was the only case in the series Gardner wrote where Perry Mason lost the case.
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories.Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner.Perry Mason features in 82 novels and four short stories, all of which involve a client being charged with murder, usually involving a preliminary hearing or jury trial.
First edition dust jacket of The Bigger They Come (1939), the first mystery in the Cool and Lam series. Cool and Lam is a fictional American private detective firm that is the center of a series of thirty detective novels written by Erle Stanley Gardner (creator of "Perry Mason") using the pen name of A. A. Fair.
In September 1937 Warner Bros. produced the Looney Tunes cartoon, The Case of the Stuttering Pig, featuring Porky Pig.Although a lawyer figures in the story, [3]: 251 the cartoon has no relationship to the Warner Bros. Perry Mason feature that inspired its clever title.
Tampa native and connected youth motivational speaker Jimmie Gardner, 57, was arrested in Florida and accused of being involved in sexual acts with a 16-year-old teenage girl in a hotel room.
The character later appeared in more than 80 novels by Gardner, as well as Warner Brothers feature films in the 1930's, a CBS Radio program from 1943 to 1955, and a CBS Television program beginning in 1957. His daughter Adela published a biography of her father in 1962 titled Final Verdict.