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9%OFFErle Stanley Gardner - The Knife Slipped - 9781783299270 - V9781783299270
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The Knife Slipped

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Description for The Knife Slipped Paperback. Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped is a glorious return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels published between 1939 and 1970 -- and one that's never been published until now.Lost for more than 75 years, THE KNIFE SLIPPED was meant to be the second book in the series but shelved when Gardner's publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool's tendency to talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Titan Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783299270
SKU
V9781783299270
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Ref
99-50

About Erle Stanley Gardner
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, ... Read more

Reviews for The Knife Slipped
For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses.
Publishers Weekly A remarkable discovery...fans will rejoice at another dose of Gardner's unexcelled mastery of pace and an unexpected new taste of his duo's cyanide chemistry.
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