Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Murderer’s Bride and Other Stories

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Name: Erie Stanley Gardner. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, on July 17, 1889. Admitted to the California bar in 1911. Died on March 11, 1970. After the death of his first wife, married on August 7, 1968, to the woman who had been his Executive Secretary for many years — Jean Bethell. One child by his first marriage, Grace Naso.

[publishing history]

Erie Stanley Gardner’s first magazine story, “The Police of the House,” was published in 1921. His first book was a Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, published in 1933. [As of 1970, thirty-seven years after Velvet Claws, Mr. Gardner had written 143 books, of which 82 are Perry Mason titles and 15 are nonfiction. | No other author in the United States has equaled his total sales. The last compilation gave sales in the United States and Canada alone as approximately 200,000,000 copies.

[working day, early in career]

He always had vivid recollections of putting in day after day trying a case in front of a jury, which is one of the most exhausting activities, then dashing up to the law library after court had adjourned to spend three or four hours looking up law points with which | Perry Mason-like] he could trip his adversary the next day, then going home, grabbing a glass of milk with an egg in it, dashing upstairs to his study, ripping the cover off his typewriter, noticing it was 11:30 p.m., and settling down with grim determination to get a plot for a story.

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