I've read 3 of the Cool & Lam novels, and in all of them
Bertha Cool plays a secondary role -- she looks after the
business end of the private eye practice (and bitches about
it), and Donald does most of the actual work. There's a list
of the 30 Cool & Lam novels at
http://www.grooviespad.com/esg/works/Bibliography.asp?genre=2
Darrell http://wildfaith.homestead.com/perrymason.html
----- Original Message -----
From: William Denton
To: RARA-AVIS
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Top of the Heap, by ESG
I read TOP OF THE HEAP by Erle Stanley Gardner
(1952, as A.A. Fair) and it
was fine stuff! This is the first Gardner book I
can be sure I've
finished--I think I started some Perry Masons
when I was a lad, but I
don't remember getting to the end. After this,
however, and the
recommendations I've seen for the Bertha
Cool/Donald Lam books (such as
this) and the Perry Masons, I'll try more. I
think people have said that
Perry's sort of hardboiled in the early
books.
Does Bertha Cool play more of a role in the other
books than in this one?
Here she's around at the start and the finish,
but mostly it's Lam on his
own.
Bill
--
William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/
: Caveat lector.
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