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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...
...Black Eyes. Gardner's position in the mystery field is towering in the face of the fact that the average detective story in the U.S. sells a mere 3,000 in the original trade edition and nets its author about $800. A story fortunate enough to be picked as a Crime Club semimonthly selection may sell about 10,000 copies, while Gardner's trade-edition average over the past five years has been 24,000. But position with whodunit fans is only half the story. Author Gardner is not only the most popular practitioner, he is also...
...Author Gardner is a solid, energetic man to whom writing is a serious, dollars & cents business. As a boy, he followed his mining-engineer father from his home state of Massachusetts to the Klondike and finally to California, where the family decided to settle down. His school years were a running revolt against teachers and formal education, but he did get through high school. He tried boxing, took some thorough beatings, decided to read for the law after a deputy district attorney bawled him out for taking part in an unlicensed fight. One day when he was 21, he showed...