The Danger Zone and Other Stories

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Erle Stanley Gardner was among the most prolific mystery writers of all time not only in number of published words — close to 20,000,000 — but in the number of series characters he created over the course of his remarkable fifty-year career. Beginning in the early 1920s he gave birth to no less than 49 unique detectives and adventurers who made two or more appearances in book or magazine form, and to dozens of others who might easily have become series characters if editors, readers, and/or Gardner himself had so desired.

Perry Mason, of course, is by far his most celebrated, fertile, and enduring invention; along with Della Street and Paul Drake, Mason appears in 82 of the 128 novels published by Gardner between 1933 and 1970. The amusing detective team of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool are featured in 29 book — length adventures as by A. A. Fair. Crusading district attorney Doug Selby has the starring role in nine, irrepressible and eccentric Gramps Wiggins and San Francisco attorney and former China service diplomat Terry Clane in two each, and criminologist Sidney Griff and advertising executive cum detective Sam Moraine in one each as by Carleton Kendrake and Charles J. Kenny, respectively.

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