Erle Stanley Gardner
Author · 1889–1970

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American writer and lawyer (1889–1970). Born in Malden.

Our catalogue lists 52 books by Erle Stanley Gardner, mostly angel fiction, adventure fiction and classic fantasy. They span 1928 to 1973. The most-read is The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933).

Books by Erle Stanley Gardner

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")

Authors like Erle Stanley Gardner