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From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Earle Stanley Gardner
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 21:44:00 EDT
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!wombat    Aug 25 20:44:00 1985


Look for a copy of the book *Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real
Perry Mason* by Dorothy B. Hughes. It's a pretty good biography of Gardner,
and an appendix in the back lists every book he wrote. The book came out a
year or two or three ago in hardback; I don't know if a paperback was
published.

About eighty Perry Mason novels were written before Gardner died. Some have
recently been reissued in paperback, and there is also an Avenel collection
with about five novels. I've had fairly good luck finding them (I have
copies of most of them now, after about eight years) at used book stores and
library book sales.

The book describes Gardner's beginnings as a lawyer defending residents of
Chinatown, his early writings for the mystery, western, and science fiction
pulps, the beginnings of Perry Mason, his friendships with many police
officers, forensic scientists, and crime specialists, the transition to a
full-time writing career, and on the human side the women who worked as his
secretaries, including the models for Della Street, and his love for the
desert and camping trips there.

If you are interested in lists of books by Gardner, let me know and I will
send them by e-mail.

"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."
				Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand*

						Wombat
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