Erle Stanley Gardner

Litchfield Reviews The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner

In a thrilling 1950s tale from one of the most successful mystery writers of all time, detective duo Bertha Cool and Donald Lam investigate the theft of two precious jade idols and the baffling murder of their millionaire client, found dead from a poisoned dart in a double-locked room.

Nicholas Litchfield’s review of The Count of 9 is featured today in the Lancashire Post and syndicated to 20 newspapers in the UK.

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Book review: The Knife Slipped by Erle Stanley Gardner

Litchfield Reviews Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Knife Slipped for the Lancashire Evening Post

Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: After a forty-six year lull, the frosted office door of ‘B. Cool, Investigations’ swings open once more as the lovable private eye team of ‘hard as nails’ boss Bertha Cool and her ‘little runt’ operative, Donald Lam, set to work on a tough new case in The Knife Slipped.

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