Erle Stanley Gardner

Litchfield Reviews The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner

“Habitually sparring with police officers, suspects, and adversaries, the petite, lightweight Lam once again finds himself up against rough cops and vindictive crooks eager to turn him into a human punching bag. Though competent at meting out verbal jabs, he leads with his chin while ‘somebody always works him over.’ In this especially bruising tale, […]

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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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