Turn on the Heat
$35.33
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2013
Summary
Strange bedfellows can be political poison, and the candidate had picked himself a dilly. She was ruthless and corrupt and had enough on him to smear his shining armour with front page mud.
Donald Lam and Bertha Cool told him not to worry. Women were Donald’s speciality, the more dangerous the better. But when the lovely lady turned up dead, the case took an ugly twist. Suddenly Lam and Cool were in the middle of a red-hot race where bullets, not ballots, counted.Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471908781 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147190878X |
| Author: | Erle Stanley Gardner |
| Publisher: | The Murder Room |
| Imprint: | The Murder Room |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Cool & Lam |
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Critics Review
If you want a glimpse into what fiction used to be, and may be again, look no further than TURN ON THE HEAT. It is a gem.–BookReporter
Erle Stanley Gardner’s Cool and Lam are fun to read about, and Turn on the Heat has them in fine form –Bill Crider
This one is a lot of fun. Recommended. –AtomicJunkShop
A must for Gardner fans - if for no other reason than to demonstrate the breadth of Gardner’s inventive skills when he wasn’t busy with his better known lawyer/investigator.
For those a little less passionate about Perry Mason, the Cool and Lam mysteries are a wonderful example of the kinds if mysteries that helped define the genre during its formative years.
–Bookgasm
“Gardner’s writing encapsulates what’s best about the ‘40s and puts it to the page” - Criminal Element
“It’s exciting stuff to find one of the best reads of the year is a reprint of a book that is 77 years old and hasn’t been in print for 50 years. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest book store for one of the year’s best retro reads.” - Borg.com
The novel’s rapid-fire banter makes what is already a highly entertaining story a real gem. - Seattle Book Review 4-star
a welcome addition to my bookcase. -John Koenig - Stuff I Like
About The Author
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Erle Stanley Gardner left school in 1909 and attended Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana for just one month before he was suspended for focusing more on his hobby of boxing that his academic studies. Soon after, he settled in California, where he taught himself the law and passed the state bar exam in 1911. The practise of law never held much interest for him, however, apart from as it pertained to trial strategy, and in his spare time he began to write for the pulp magazines that gave Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler their start. Not long after the publication of his first novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, featuring Perry Mason, he gave up his legal practice to write full time. He had one daughter, Grace, with his first wife, Natalie, from whom he later separated. In 1968 Gardner married his long-term secretary, Agnes Jean Bethell, whom he professed to be the real ‘Della Street’, Perry Mason’s sole (although unacknowledged) love interest. He was one of the most successful authors of all time and at the time of his death, in Temecula, California in 1970, is said to have had 135 million copies of his books in print in America alone.Returns
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