A young trial lawyer eager to escape from his rut in California, Erle Stanley Gardner in 1923 got the idea for his first successful series of short stories when he watched a human fly crawl up the ...

A gumshoe assigned to work a simple divorce case ends up accused of murder in this fast, often funny crime novel, written in 1939 but not published until now. On the run from the law, the detective is ...

For HBO’s 'Perry Mason' reboot, creators Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones dove into the novels, only to discover few details of the character’s early life. Says Fitzgerald of the task before them: "An ...

FACTS about Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the Perry Mason stories, are never quite up to date. Like Gardner himself, the statistics of his writing won’t hold still long enough to settle in any ...

A Kerr family story is that the San Antonio attorney named Park Street was somehow the original inspiration for Perry Mason. Park Street was a friend of my father, Harvey Cleveland Kerr. I wish I ...

Erle Stanley Gardner, the author of “The Knife Slipped,” is perhaps best remembered as the creator of Perry Mason. But Gardner, who died in 1970, turned out dozens of other books. Among them was a ...

Betty Burke always made me smile. The last secretary of famed mystery writer and Temecula resident Erle Stanley Gardner, Betty died in August 2011 at her longtime home in Lake Elsinore. She was 95. On ...

Though primarily known for his Perry Mason novels, prolific crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner also had another mystery series running many years. Written under the not-so-hidden pseudonym of A.A. Fair ...

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 ...