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Following a money trail leads a PI into danger in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Turn on the Heat. Brainy private detective Donald Lam is always one step ahead of the bad guys--but hes also smaller than them and typically gets beat up. Thats why his boss, the ever-irascible Bertha Cool, has hired a martial arts master to teach him self-defense. The first class isnt easy for Donald, but he is rewarded with a new client . . . Henry Ashbury is concerned about his daughters recent spending habits. He wants Donald to find out where her money is going, without letting on that hes a detective. So, going undercover as Ashburys trainer, Donald soon learns the story behind the daughters finances. But when his investigation also turns up a dead body, the diminutive detective must teach the killer a lesson in justice . . . Lively wit and machinegun dialogue. --Ralph E. Vaughan, author of Murder in the Goblins Playground Gardner has a way of moving the story forward that is almost a lost art: great stretches of dialogue alternate with lively chunks of exposition, and the two work together perfectly, without sacrificing momentum. --BooklistErle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was the top selling American author of the twentieth century, primarily due to the enormous success of his Perry Mason Mysteries, which numbered more than eighty and inspired a half-dozen motion pictures and radio programs, as well as a long-running television series starring Raymond Burr. Having begun his career as a pulp writer, Gardner brought a hard-boiled style and sensibility to his early Mason books, but he gradually developed into a more classic detective novelist, providing clues to allow astute readers to solve his many mysteries. For over a quarter of a century, he wrote more than a million words a year under his own name as well as numerous pseudonyms, the most famous being A. A. Fair. Book specifications:Collection: Bertha Cool and Donald Lam MysteriesDimensions: 203 x 133Author: Erle Stanley GardnerCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2022Publishing Month: 5Pages: 264Language: EnglishPublisher: Mysteriouspress.Com/Open RoadWeight: 304 g
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