He was one of the founding members of the Case Review Committee aka The Court of Last Resort which reopened cases where a person might have been wrongly convicted. In , his Perry Mason character was adapted for television and made Gardner a fortune over the ensuing years. All Rights Reserved eBooks-Library. General Reference. General Science. Historical Fiction. Western Fiction.
Erle Stanley Gardner a. Born: Jul. Gardner's readership was a broad and international one, including the English novelist Evelyn Waugh, who in called Gardner the best living American writer.
Gardner also created characters for various radio programs, including Christopher London , starring Glenn Ford, and A Life in Your Hands — Burr had auditioned for the role of the district attorney Hamilton Burger, but Gardner reportedly declared he was the embodiment of Perry Mason. Gardner and his first wife had separated in the early s, and after her death in , Gardner married Agnes Jean Bethell — , his secretary since Perry Mason's fictional secretary, Della Street, was a composite of Jean and her two sisters, Peggy and Ruth, who also worked as secretaries for Gardner.
He held a lifelong fascination with Baja California and wrote a series of nonfiction travel accounts describing his extensive explorations of the peninsula by boat, truck, airplane, and helicopter. Gardner devoted thousands of hours to 'The Court of Last Resort', in collaboration with his many friends in the forensic, legal, and investigative communities. The project sought to review, and when appropriate, reverse miscarriages of justice against criminal defendants who had been convicted because of poor legal representation, abuse, misinterpretation of forensic evidence, or careless or malicious actions of police or prosecutors.
Gardner died on March 11, , at his ranch in Temecula [4] [18] —the best-selling American writer of the 20th century at the time of his death. Gardner was cremated and his ashes scattered over his beloved Baja California peninsula. From to , the Ransom Center featured a full-scale reproduction of Gardner's study that displayed original furnishings, personal memorabilia, and artifacts.
Written in as the second entry in the Cool and Lam series, the book was rejected at the time by Gardner's publisher. An unspecified article Gardner wrote for True magazine is referenced by William S. Burroughs in his novel, Naked Lunch. Gardner's name is well known among avid crossword puzzle solvers, because his first name contains an unusual series of common letters, and because few other famous people have that name.
As of January , he is noted for having the highest ratio 5. The minute program is available as a VHS videorecording. Erle Stanley Gardner in Search for:. Kyle Corning, A. Fair, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J.
Kenny, Robert Parr, Les Tillray. The Case of the Curious Bride by 3. The Case of the Howling Dog by 3. The Case of the Counterfeit Eye by 3. The Case of the Caretaker's Cat by 3. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop by 3. The Case of the Runaway Corpse by 3. The Case of the One-Eyed Witness by 3. The Case of the Perjured Parrot by 3.
The Case of the Dangerous Dowager by 3. The Case of the Buried Clock by 3. The Case of the Lonely Heiress by 3. The Case of the Drowning Duck by 3. The Case of the Haunted Husband by 3. The Case of the Lame Canary by 3.
The Case of the Amorous Aunt by 3. The Case of the Glamorous Ghost by 3. The Case of the Rolling Bones by 3.
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