Gardner, Earl Stanley

Born a writer in Melden, Massachusetts, graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1909, and enrolled at Valparaiso University School of Law in the United States. Indiana; passed the exam of the state commission for the title of lawyer in 1911.

In 1917, Gardner opened a law office in Merced , California.

A few years later he went to work in a sales agency, and another 5 years later, in 1921, opened the Sheridan, Orr, Drapo and Gardner Law Office in Ventura , California.

Gardner was gaining popularity by his vivid speeches at trials until 1933 , but after the release of his first detective novel, The Case of Velvet Claws, he decided to devote himself to literature entirely.

Gardner in 1946 founded and until the 1960s was one of the members of the Committee of the Court of Last Hope, a human rights organization for the review of death sentences. ^[2] For a documentary book about this organization, he was awarded the Edgar Prize for the 1962 American Association of Detective Writers in the Grand Master nomination ^[3] .

Gardner also owes the merit of attracting public attention (by publishing an article ^[4] in Life magazine in 1962) ^{[5] [6]} to the cave paintings of Baja California , some of which were later classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites .

In addition, in 1968, together with Charles Hapgood , Gardner participated in the research of the so-called Akambaro figurines , later uniquely recognized as fakes XX century ^[7] .

In 1968, Gardner married his long-standing secretary, Agnes Bethel (1902-2002), who became the prototype of Della Street, secretary of the main literary hero of Gardner, lawyer Perry Mason.

Gardner wrote several series of novels. The largest number of works (over 80) includes a series in which the main character is the lawyer Perry Mason .

Under the pseudonym A. A. Fair Gardner wrote a series of novels about private investigator Donald Laem and his boss Bert Cool, this series is partly a parody of the Rex Stout series about Niro Wolfe and Archie Goodwin .

Gardner is also the author of several small series of novels (Ed Jenkins, Paul Pry and others - several novels in a series, see below).

Gardner's first published works (since 1923), discovered by critics after he gained success by writing detective stories, were science fiction stories in Pulp magazines that did not bring him fame.

Gardner's documentary works are books on the activities of The Last Hope Court, as well as books on his travels in the Baja California area.

Perry Mason

Unlike other lawyers, Mason not only represents his clients in court, but also, resorting to the help of other persons (in most novels this is private detective Paul Drake), he himself investigates the crimes. Mason’s main opponent is prosecutor Hamilton Berger.

Notes on the bibliography:

If possible, the numbers adopted in the domestic literature are preserved: 82 novels ^[8] (column “No. P”) or 85 works (column “No. P”) taking into account the stories. Stories published under pseudonyms are indicated, but not numbered. The most common translation is indicated as the main one. In the column “1 Dep. ed. ”indicates the date of the first edition as a separate book; the publisher was exclusively William Morrow and Company ^[9] . The column “1 publ.” Shows the dates of the first publication (some works were published in magazines before book publication, most often in the format of the series) and the abbreviated name of the journal in the format:

• C's - Collier's ,
• CTNY - Syndicate of the Chicago Tribune -New York News,
• LM - Liberty Magazine,
• RTM - Radio and Television Mirror,
• TAM - The American Magazine ,
• TSEP - The Saturday Evening Post ,
• TSW - Toronto Star Weekly .

The stories are highlighted in yellow, posthumous publications are highlighted in gray.

Bill Eldon

• The mystery of the runaway blonde / The Clue of the Runaway Blonde (also known as Clues Don't Count), 1945
• The Riddle of the Hungry Horse (Other Name: Death in the Stable) / The Clue of the Hungry Horse, 1947
• Too Many Clues (short story), 1947
• The Clue of the Screaming Woman (short story), 1949

Gramps Wiggins

• High tide killing
• Smoke Lamp Case

Jerry Bane

• Stubborn Witness Case

Donald Lam and Berta Cool

A series of 29 novels about private detectives Donald Laem and Burt Cool ^[12] . Berta Cool is the head of a detective agency, a fat woman about 60 years old. Donald Lam is her sensible subordinate, young and very smart. Usually Donald Lam conducts all the search work, collects evidence, etc., and Berta Cool only writes him checks and very rarely helps, not missing the chance to grumble. Gardner published these novels under the pseudonym AA Fair by William Morrow and Company.

Doug Selby

A series of 9 novels about a young district attorney, Douglas Selby, who fights corruption in the fictional uptown town of Madison City, California. The chief antagonist of the district attorney is the dishonest lawyer A. B. Carr (nicknamed ABC ). The first 6 novels were first published as a series in Country Gentleman, the last three in The Saturday Evening Post.

Leicester Leith

The stories about Leicester Leyte were originally published in pulp magazines (Detective Fiction Weekly, Flynn's Detective Fiction Weekly) from 1929 to 1943, about 60 stories were published in total ^[14] . В 1980 был напечатан сборник ^[15] :

• Ellery Queen Presents The Amazing Adventures of Lester Leith (1980) (рассказы "In Round Figures," "The Bird in the Hand," "A Thousand to One," "The Exact Opposite" and "Lester Leith, Magician")

На русском опубликованы:

• Любитель конфет / The Candy Kid (1931.03.14, Detective Fiction Weekly)
• Что-то вроде пеликана / Something Like a Pelican (1943.01, Flynn's Detective Fiction)
• Двадцать пять тысяч долларов (варианты перевода: «25 тысяч долларов», «25000 и белое перышко») ^[16]

Пол Прай

Сидни Зум

• Исчезнувший труп

Сэм Морейн

• Это — убийство

Терри Клейн

• Смерть таится в рукаве
• Дело отсталого мула

Эд Дженкинс

Серия детективов (75 коротких повестей или рассказов) о «благородном» мошеннике Эде Дженкинсе, на английском выходили в период с 1925 по 1943 годы. На русском вышел только перевод сборника из шести рассказов "Письма мертвецов", переизданных в 1990 году.

Miscellaneous

Нехудожественные произведения

• « Гладиатор по найму » (1993)

• Эрл Стенли Гарднер на сайте « Лаборатория Фантастики »
• Erle Stanley Gardner на сайте SF-Encyclopedia
• Подробная библиография ЭСГ