Fools Die On Friday
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From Perry Mason-creator Erle Stanley Gardner comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool.
Cool & Lam are back, in the case Raymond Chandler called "about the best of the series since the first two...perhaps since the very first." Hired to prevent a poisoning that hasn't happened yet, Donald Lam tries playing mind games with a prospective killer, only to wind up with two poisonings to solve - and two dangerous femme fatales, not to mention an adulterous dentist, a questionable real estate scheme, and a scientific system for betting the horses that someone might kill to keep secret...
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One of the best-selling authors of all time, Erle Stanley Gardner's greatest creations include crusading attorney Perry Mason (star of more than eighty novels, a TV series and TV movies) and the hardboiled detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, who appeared in more than two dozen adventures. An attorney himself, Gardner also founded the Court of Last Resort, a group that investigated criminal cases they believed had ended in wrong convictions.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Rave Reviews for Erle Stanley Gardner!
- Other Hard Case Crime Books
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Author's Note
- Chapter One: Pattern for Poison
- Chapter Two: Low-Pressure Salesman
- Chapter Three: Anchovy Paste and Soft Soap
- Chapter Four: Psychological Handcuffs
- Chapter Five: A Hellcat on Wheels
- Chapter Six: A Slight Case of Homicide
- Chapter Seven: The Invisible Room
- Chapter Eight: Moonbeams on Flypaper
- Chapter Nine: Pretty Powerful Medicine
- Chapter Ten: Donald Buys a Lot
- Chapter Eleven: Playing for Keeps
- Chapter Twelve: How to Beat the Races
- Chapter Thirteen: A Bear by the Tail
- Chapter Fourteen: Murder Keeps on Happening
- Chapter Fifteen: The Contents of a Locker
- Chapter Sixteen: Hotter Than a Stove Lid
- Chapter Seventeen: Dead-to-Rights
- Chapter Eighteen: All Head and Some Heart
- Chapter Nineteen: Voices of Death
- Chapter Twenty: Cupid Closes a Case
- Chapter Twenty-One: Chain Reaction
