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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CASE OF THE CAUTIOUS COQUETTE (275 pp.) - Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow...
Lawyer-Detective Perry Mason wasn't looking for all the trouble he got. He was just trying to find the hit & run driver who had put his client in the hospital; all he wanted was a fair settlement. Of course, any Erie Stanley Gardner fan could have told Perry Mason he was headed for plenty of trouble. Before The Case of the Cautious Coquette is over, Mason gets tangled up with a dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets...
...Case of the Cautious Coquette, Erie Stanley Gardner's 61st crime novel, is a good example of the stream-of-action technique, the ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover...
Distorted or not, the Wold piece had snagged an extra 10,000 buyers for Look's Feb. 15 issue, and Look professed not to be worried. Editor Gardner Cowles said that Look had "checked the article thoroughly" before publication, "and we are going to stand...
...this point, Novelist Moon begins to favor an uncompromising thesis. He makes Editor Thornton, in demanding that Gardner be fired, revert to stereotyped white brutality, and he makes President Rogers seem culpably weak for giving in. The thesis: Editor Thornton's liberalism has never been much more than a way of satisfying his own vanity, and Rogers' lifelong effort to educate his race has actually-and even consciously-played into the hands of the segregators...