Top Of The Heap (Hard Case Crime) Cool & Lam

Name: Top Of The Heap (Hard Case Crime) Cool & Lam
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
ISBN: 9780843953527

by Erle Stanley Gardner, A.A. Fair

3.5

(2 ratings)

222 pages1952Hard Crime CaseISBN 9780843953527

Fiction Suspense Mystery

About this book

"When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi - and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency. But his client's story doesn't add up, and soon Lam's uncovered a mining scam, an illegal casino, a double homicide...and a chance for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune. If he can just stay alive long enough to cash in!"--Back cover.

Publication Details

Publisher: Hard Crime Case
Published: 1952
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9780843953527
Language: en

About Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was a prolific American author. A former lawyer, he is best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A. Fair, Carl Franklin Ruth, Carleton Kendrake, Charles M. Green, Charles J. Kenny, Edward Leaming, Grant Holiday, Kyle Corning, Les Tillray, Robert Parr, Stephen Caldwell, and once as the Perry Mason character Della Street ("The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts"). Three stories were published as Anonymous ("A Fair Trial", "Part Music and Part Tears", and "You Can't Run Away from Yourself" aka "The Jazz Baby")