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Erle Stanley Gardner
Malden, Massachusetts, USA
A writer was born in the city of Malden, Massachusetts, graduated from the Palo Alto High School in 1909 and entered the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana; passed the…
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A writer was born in the city of Malden, Massachusetts, graduated from the Palo Alto High School in 1909 and entered the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana; passed the examination of the state commission for the title of lawyer in 1911. In 1917 Gardner opens an attorney's office in Merced, California. A few years later, he moved to work in a sales agency, and five years later, in 1921, he opened a law firm, Sheridan, Orr, Drapo and Gardner, in Ventura, California. Gardner is gaining popularity with vivid presentations at court trials until 1933, but after the release of his first detective novel "The Case of Velvet Claws," it is decided to devote himself to the literature entirely. Gardner in 1946 founded and until the 1960s was one of the members of the committee "The Court of Last Hope," a human rights organization to review the death sentences. For a documentary about this organization, he was awarded the Edgar Poe Award of the American Association of Detective Writers in 1962 in the Grand Master nomination. Gardner also deserves to attract public attention (by publishing an article in the magazine "Life" in 1962) to the rock carvings of Lower California, some of which were later listed 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 unequivocally recognized as counterfeits of the 20th century. In 1968, Gardner married his longtime secretary Agnes Bethel (1902-2002), who became the prototype of Della Street, the secretary of the main literary hero Gardner, the lawyer of Perry Mason.
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2020
Perry Mason
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1995
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
Movie Novel
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1994
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Movie Novel
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1994
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Movie Novel
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1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Movie Novel
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1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
Movie Novel
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1993
Gladiator for Rent
Movie Novel
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1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Movie Novel
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1992
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
Movie Novel
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1992
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
Movie Novel
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1992
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
Movie Novel
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1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
Movie Novel
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1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
Movie Novel
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1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
Movie Novel
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1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
Movie Novel
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1990
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
Movie Novel
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1990
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
Movie Novel
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1990
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
Movie Novel
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1990
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
Movie Novel
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1989
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
Movie Novel
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1989
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Movie Novel
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1989
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
Movie Novel
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1988
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
Movie Novel
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1988
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Movie Novel
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1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
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1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
Movie Novel
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1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
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1987
All Against One
Movie Novel
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1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
Movie Novel
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1986
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
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1986
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Movie Novel
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1985
Perry Mason Returns
Movie Novel
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1973
The New Perry Mason
TV show Novel
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1971
They Call It Murder
Movie Novel
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1958
Cool and Lam
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1957
The Court of Last Resort
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Judge Two (uncredited)
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1940
Granny Get Your Gun
Movie Story
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1937
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Movie Story
