The Amazing Adventures of Lester Leith

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Erle Stanley Gardner probably invented more series detectives and criminals than any other writer in the mystery field. Foremost, of course, is his lawyer-detective, Perry Mason, the best-selling fictional sleuth in the history of American publishing. Other Gardner creations include Señor Arnaz de Lobo, professional soldier of fortune; Sidney Zoom and his police dog; the suave and sinister Patent Leather Kid; the firm of Small, Weston & Burke; Ed Jenkins, the Phantom Crook (one of Gardner’s personal favorites); Whispering Sands; Speed Dash, a human fly with a photographic memory (Gardner’s earliest series character); Major Brane, freelance secret-service man; El Paisano, who could see in the dark; Larkin, a juggler who used only a billiard cue as his weapon; Black Barr, a two-gun Western avenger; Ken Corning, the slick lawyer who antedated Perry Mason; Hard Rock Hogan; Fong Dei; Crowder; Rapp; Skarle — all of whom appeared in pulp magazines and were followed by the hardcover-book protagonists, D.A. Douglas Selby, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, Sheriff Bill Eldon, and, of course, the one and only Perry Mason.

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