Erle Stanley Gardner

Thanks to a bungled robbery at a fancy hotel, the already-married Eva Griffin has been caught in the company of a prominent congressman. To protect the politico, Eva's ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid his hush money. But Perry Mason has other plans. He tracks down the phantom fat cat who secretly runs the blackmailing tabloid-- only to discover a shocking scoop.

"Private investigators Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, stars of five of Hard Case Crime's most popular novels, return to solve their toughest case yet. Hired to prevent a socialite from poisoning her husband, Donald Lam dreams up an ingenious scheme involving a carton of anchovy paste and a fictitious national ad campaign. But when the whole thing backfires spectacularly and bodies, witnesses, and suspects start piling up, it'll take every ounce of Donald's...

Private detective, Bob Crowder, is the man behind the mask. He had some ingenious ways of ferreting out crime--fighting crooks by acting like a crook! Erle Stanley Gardner (famous for Perry Mason) wrote four stories about Bob Crowder. We have gathered them all together in this book. Follow his exploits in: Second-story law ; Restless pearls ; Behind the mask ; Jack of hearts.

"Four stories, four protagonists, four different crimes. Each hero had his own slant on fighting crime. There are Dudley Bell, Bud Norman, Kayo Macray, and Ben Harper. Follow their exploits as only the great Erle Stanley Gardner could record for posterity. We have gathered them all together in this book ..."--Page 4 of cover.

"Sleuthing attorney Perry Mason can't resist a good mystery, so when he sees an older woman being accused of shoplifting during a department store outing with his assistant, Della Street, he doesn't hesitate to intervene. Armed with an assumption of innocence and the legal acumen to silence her accuser, Mason leaps to the woman's defense--until her niece appears, acknowledging her aunt's guilt, and pays for the stolen items. Soon thereafter, Aunt...

"Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form. For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period’s purest form: it presents the reader with a baffling scenario (a corpse discovered in a windowless room locked from the inside, perhaps), lays out a set of increasingly confounding clues, and swiftly delivers an ingenious and satisfying solution. During the years between the two world wars,...