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Un fotógrafo consigue una instantánea del famoso político Harrison Burke saliendo de un local de juego acompañado de una mujer casada, Eva Belter. Harrison está preocupado por su carrera y Eva, una mujer mimada, teme las represalias de su marido, George. De este modo, acude a Perry Mason en busca de ayuda, presentándose con su apellido de soltera, y lo informa de que una revista sensacionalista la está chantajeando y de que sospecha que su marido tiene algo que ver. Mason tiene un interés personal en ver cerrada la revista porque un amigo suyo se suicidó a causa de un reportaje que publicó. Esa noche, el abogado recibe una llamada de Eva: George ha sido asesinado. Pero los acontecimientos dan un giro inesperado cuando también le insinúa que lo oyó discutir con su marido. Perry Mason se convierte así en el primer sospechoso de asesinato de este caso. El abogado tendrá que evitar ser engañado y luchar por librar a su clienta de todos los cargos.

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From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time -- comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool. Has Donald Lam gone to the dark side? From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner - at his death the best-selling American writer of all time - comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency: SHILLS CAN'T CASH CHIPS. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder - and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever, and a fitting capper to Hard Case Crime's revival of this classic (and long unavailable) detective series.

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Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON - at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print, including the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Gardner was also one of the most ingenious plot-spinners in the field, coming up with stunning twists and reveals... and THE COUNT OF 9 is Gardner at his twistiest. Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party - least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun - when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: AN IMPOSSIBLE MURDER...

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At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels published between 1939 and 1970 -- and one that's never been published until now.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.

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From the world-famous creator of “Perry Mason,” Erle Stanley Gardner – at his death the best-selling American writer of all time – comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency: TURN ON THE HEAT. Return to the sizzling 1940s as Bertha Cool and Donald Lam investigate a missing woman, a desperate husband, a politician with a past, and a femme fatale with a future…assuming she doesn’t go to jail for murder! Featuring brand new cover art that is a posthumous collaboration between Laurel Blechman and the legendary Robert Maguire – the first new Maguire cover in decades!

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El cuerpo del acaudalado hombre de negocios Hartley Basset es hallado sin vida. Una nota de suicidio escrita a máquina y tres armas de fuego aparecen cerca del cadáver. Para Perry Mason el suicidio es demasiado evidente; el astuto abogado sabía que Basset tenía problemas de todo tipo: su mujer pretendía abandonarlo, su hijastro lo odiaba, un estafador no podía devolverle el dinero prestado?, sin olvidar al hombre con un ojo de cristal que había contratado a Mason y cuyo ojo perdido apareció en la mano de la víctima.Demasiados sospechosos y demasiadas mentiras. Pero Mason, junto consu ingeniosa secretaria, Della Street, y el inteligente detective Paul Drake,juntará las partes que faltan en este fatal rompecabezas familiar.

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From Perry Mason-creator Erle Stanley Gardner comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool. Cool & Lam are back, in the case Raymond Chandler called "about the best of the series since the first two...perhaps since the very first." Hired to prevent a poisoning that hasn't happened yet, Donald Lam tries playing mind games with a prospective killer, only to wind up with two poisonings to solve - and two dangerous femme fatales, not to mention an adulterous dentist, a questionable real estate scheme, and a scientific system for betting the horses that someone might kill to keep secret...

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