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One of the best-selling authors of all time, Erle Stanley Gardner's greatest creations include crusading attorney Perry Mason (star of more than eighty novels, a TV series and TV movies) and the hardboiled detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, who appeared in more than two dozen adventures. An attorney himself, Gardner also founded the Court of Last Resort, a group that investigated criminal cases they believed had ended in wrong convictions.

PRAISE FOR FOOLS DIE ON FRIDAY "Another ebullient dash down Memory Lane with Los Angeles private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam...great fun." - Kirkus Reviews"[T]ightly written, fast-moving, funny in the right places, and entertaining from page one right to the end."- Deadly Pleasures MagazinePRAISE FOR SHILLS CAN'T CASH CHIPS"Fun, entertaining, and addictive... Brain candy. Reading for pleasure as it's meant to be... Once again, Hard Case Crime breathes new life into a classic crime fiction novel." - New York Journal of Books"A sterling example of how the job of writing private-eye fiction is properly performed by a master of the genre." - BookReporter "For those who like their crime fiction to be high-octane, this novel is a stunner."- Daily Mail"A delightful read with innumerable twists and turns, a satisfying ending, and great one-liners - what's not to love about Shills Can't Cash Chips?" - STORGY Review"Fans of golden-age pulp fiction will love this resurrected wisecracking 1961 example of the genre... It's packed with dangerous dames, scams, mobsters and the like, very redolent of the Bogie and Cagney era movies." - Peterborough Telegraph Review"If you're looking for some entertaining mysteries, I recommend the Lam/Cool series and especially this newly reprinted volume." - George Kelley