Erle Stanley Gardner Books

'The bestselling author of the century ... a master storyteller' New York Times

SILENCE IS MURDER Perry Mason's beautiful new client isn't giving anything away, not even her name, and he suspects that what she does choose to reveal is mostly lies. Certainly the bag full of cash she carries isn't shopping money. All the mystery woman asks is that Mason make himself available for a few days in case she needs him--for what purpose, she remains silent as the grave. In fact, his headstrong client, who identifies herself only as "36-24-36," is headed for disaster--not only into a blackmailer's clutches but into a lethal trap from which not even Perry Mason's brilliant courtroom sorcery may be able to extricate her. Alive, anyway . . . THE ORIGINAL COURTROOM NOVELS

Emotionally distraught, Mildred Crest assumes the identity of a hitchhiker who has died in a car accident and becomes the victim of a blackmail threat

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, this collection features Lester Leith, an urbane Robin Hood who cleverly steals from the wealthy to assist the less fortunate, all while keeping a portion for himself. The stories showcase Gardner's wit and humor, which were often absent in his later works. With only a few of these tales previously anthologized, this volume significantly expands the collection, marking it as the fourth installment in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics series dedicated to Gardner's pulp characters.

It looks like a trivial enough incident: a would-be petty thief makes his escape before he has stolen anything. But when the beat constable arrives to look for damage, he finds something he hasn't been expecting - a dead man, with a wound in his back made by a broad blade ... possibly a spearhead. Scotland Yard get to work, following what turns out to be a very complicated business, especially when they find they are on the trail of smuggled diamonds leading all the way to South Africa ...

Night nurse Nellie Conway hires California lawyer Perry Mason for $1. She claims Nathan Bain wants to poison his second wife of two years, Elizabeth, paralyzed after accident he engineered. He fires Nellie for fluorescent powder on her fingers from outside of jewelry box, then pays her to go to New Orleans with letters for his lover Charlotte.

Perry Mason takes on the case of a woman whose millionaire husband is blackmailed by her former husband, who has turned up alive years after his plane crash. Someone murders the schemer, putting Mason on a collision course with a cold-blooded killer.

Horace Warren pays five hundred dollars to have Perry Mason attend a buffet dinner to observe his guests. He also wants Mason to investigate a fingerprint and suspects his wife is being blackmailed. Mrs Warren's mysterious past may hold the clues