Pay Dirt and Other Whispering Sands Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert

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The stories in this collection were first published in Argosy magazine on the following dates:

Singing Sand, November 7, 1931

The Land of Painted Rocks, January 28, 1933

The Big Circle, September 2, 1933

Pay Dirt, April 25, 1931

The Land of Poison Springs, April 9, 1932

Stamp of the Desert, October 17,1931

Law of the Ghost Town, April 22, 1933

The Law of Drifting Sand, August 30, 1932

The Whip Hand, January 23, 1932

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970) is one of the most popular writers of all time. His books have been translated into thirty-seven foreign languages. The first of his many mystery novels (The Case of the Velvet Claws, 1933) has sold four million copies. His paperback sales exceed every other author who has ever lived, and a current estimate of his total sales in all languages and editions would be well over 300 million copies.

Born in Massachusetts, Erle was ten when his family moved to Oregon, and the young boy grew into a hard-working and self-reliant amalgamation of East and West. Though he built a successful law practice, he was an outdoorsman by temperament and became a writer partly so that he could satisfy his taste for a semi-nomadic life-style. Indeed, his profound love for the southwestern deserts is reflected by the fact that he used them as the setting for more than seventy of his earliest works.

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