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Two Clues Erle Stanley Gardner creates a character of instantaneous appeal in a slowspoken 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 liedetectors, 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.
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, Very easy to read and liked the characterisation and the satisfying plots,

Liked the rural American setting, 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 sitelink blogspot. com. au/ . 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, Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms sitelink A, A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M, Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J, Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr, Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy.
In his spare time, he began to write for pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith, a gentleman thief in the tradition of Raffles, and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his mos Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms sitelink A.
A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M, Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J, Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr, Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy.
In his spare time, he began to write for pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith, a "gentleman thief" in the tradition of Raffles, and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation, the fictional lawyer and crime solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote than eighty novels.
With the success of Perry Mason, he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely, except for non fiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science.
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