A young trial lawyer eager to escape from his rut in California, Erle Stanley Gardner in 1923 got the idea for his first successful series of short stories when he watched a human fly crawl up the ...

A gumshoe assigned to work a simple divorce case ends up accused of murder in this fast, often funny crime novel, written in 1939 but not published until now. On the run from the law, the detective is ...

Betty Burke always made me smile. The last secretary of famed mystery writer and Temecula resident Erle Stanley Gardner, Betty died in August 2011 at her longtime home in Lake Elsinore. She was 95. On ...

FACTS about Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the Perry Mason stories, are never quite up to date. Like Gardner himself, the statistics of his writing won’t hold still long enough to settle in any ...

Though primarily known for his Perry Mason novels, prolific crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner also had another mystery series running many years. Written under the not-so-hidden pseudonym of A.A. Fair ...

Perry Mason has been a TV icon since the 1950s, the archetypal courtroom lawyer whose incisive cross-examination inevitably saves the day. The character was created by the author Erle Stanley Gardner.

Erle Stanley Gardner, the prolific author who created fictionallawyer Perry Mason, lived the 30 or so years before his death in1970 on a 3,000-acre ranch near the city of Temecula. Gardner hadfour ...

A small brass plaque hanging on the side of an old bank building in downtown Ventura is the only memorial to the site where attorney-turned-author Erle Stanley Gardner dictated his first Perry Mason ...

Oroville >> In some ways, Perry Mason Days have become a reunion for fans of the dramatic books by author Erle Stanley Gardner. Gardner lived in Oroville in his youth, prompting folks from the Butte ...

OVER THE YEARS, Perry Mason has become an American archetype: the wily lawyer who always gets his client off regardless of the niceties of legal procedure. Yet in the eighty-two books Erle Stanley ...

A writer was born in the city of Malden, Massachusetts, graduated from the Palo Alto High School in 1909 and entered the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana; passed the examination of the ...