ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

Date of Birth :17 July 1889, Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Date of Death :11 March 1970, Temecula, California, USA

Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories , true crime and travel writing. He was probably one of the most successful mystery writers of all time.
He dropped out of college and was admitted to the California bar after three years as a law-firm typist. While practicing trial law, he wrote pulp fiction, basing the courtroom scenes and brilliant legal maneuvers on his own tactics. He gave up law following the success in 1933 of The Case of the Velvet Claws and The Case of the Sulky Girl, his first novels featuring the lawyer-detective Perry Mason. Eighty Perry Mason novels followed. He also wrote two other series of detective stories, one under the pseudonym A.A. Fair.

AWARD :
The Edgard Award

PERRY MASON NOVELS :

The Case of the Lucky Legs (1934 )

A mistake at a murder scene dogs Perry while he tries to represent a woman taken in by a con man.

The Case of the Sulky Girl (1933)

A bratty heiress wants to keep the news of her marriage a secret from the guardian who controls her purse strings, but when he's murdered, her groom is accused.

The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933)

A spoiled woman is keen to keep news of her affairs from her powerful husband, even if it costs Perry his freedom when she swears he was on the murder scene.

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat (1935)

After his employer dies in a fire, a caretaker hires Mason to allow him to keep his cat against the wishes of the men who inherit. When the caretaker is killed, Mason defends the woman accused of his murder.

The Case of the Drowning Duck (1942)

Perry Mason and Della Street are on a vacation in Palm Springs when a wealthy businessman asks for advice about his daughter's boyfriend, a chemist who drowns ducks and becomes a murder suspect.

Who is PERRY MASON?

He is a fictional character,