Two Clues by Erle Stanley Gardner


Two Clues
Title : Two Clues
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Language : English
Format Type : Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages : 142
Publication : First published January 1, 1947

In Two Clues Erle Stanley Gardner creates a character of instantaneous appeal in a slow-spoken genial sheriff who is more tracker than detective. The ambitious District Attorney or the campaigning publisher of the Rockville Gazette , with their faith in fingerprints and lie-detectors, might think Bill Eldon dated, but he knows Rockville district inside out. In 'The Case of the Runaway Blonde' the body of a girl is found on a freshly ploughed strip of land. And in 'The Case of the Hungry Horse' a young woman has apparently been kicked to death in a dark stable ... This is Bill's territory, and it is his feel for cornspun characters, cattle and crops - and not the manoeuvres of the smart lawyers and politicos - that crucial to deciphering both cases.

Two Clues Reviews

  • Amaresh Joshi

    Two short mysteries set in rural southern California. The hero is an aging wise old sheriff named Bill Eldon. There's a clique of younger politicians and a newspaper editor who would like to take the sheriff down, ostensibly for his old fashioned ways, but really to increase their own political power and ambition. The sheriff admits that he is not up on the latest technical innovations, but he relies on the more traditional techniques of looking at the clues and reading people's characters. The DA and the local newspaper owner try to embarrass the sheriff, But, of course, he gets the best of them.

    A nice fun quick read. Not my usual fare, but I decided to read this after seeing the review on
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  • Robert Goodman

    Gardner obviously had a lot of characters in him, and I understand there's at least one other in this series of Sheriff Bill novellas, which is good because he's whetted my appetite for more. Very interesting characters, good mysteries. Makes me wish he'd been adapted for TV like Perry Mason.

  • Franziska Self Fisken

    Very easy to read and liked the characterisation and the satisfying plots. Liked the rural American setting.

  • Adi

    It was a very pleasant criminal story, in the style of Agatha Christie. The whole time I was rooting for the old sheriff Bill Eldon, even though obviously almost everybody was against him.