Douglas Greene (dgreene@odu.edu)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:05:05 -0400
If any of you are looking for examples of Gardner's pulp
works, the following collections are probably easily found on
the web search engines:
Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Murderer's Bride and
Other Stories, ed. Ellery Queen. New York: Davis (Ellery
Queen Presents #1), 1969.
Stories originally published mostly in the
pulps 1931-1957. One of the
stories ("The Candy Kid") features Lester
Leith.
The Case of the Crimson Kiss, A Perry Mason Novelette and
Other Stories. New York: William Morrow, n. d. [1970].
Contains the title novelette
and 4 short stories originally published in the pulps,
1928-1939.
The Case of the Crying Swallow, A Perry Mason Novelette and
Other Stories. New York: William Morrow, n. d. [1971].
Contains the title novelette about
Perry Mason , the Lester Leith story
("The Candy Kid") from The Case of the
Murderer's Bride, and 2 short
stories (one featuring Sidney Zoom and one
Jerry Bane -- another name
for Paul Pry) which were originally
published in the pulps 1931-1949.
The Case of the Irate Witness, A Perry Mason Mystery
and Other Stories. New York: William Morrow, n. d.
[1972].
Contains the title short story about
Perry Mason, one story from The
Case of the Murderer's Bride ("The Jeweled
Butterfly"), one story about
Lester Leith, and one additional story. The
stories were originally
published 1942-1953.
Erle Stanley Gardner's The Amazing Adventures of Lester
Leith, ed. Ellery Queen. New York: Davis (Ellery Queen
Presents [#8]), 1980/1981.
Rogue-detective stories from
the pulps, 1930-1941.
The Bird in the Hand and Four Other Stories. Roslyn, NY:
Published by the
Ellery Queen's Mystery Club by Walter J.
Black, Inc., n. d. [1980].
Lester Leith stories. The Ellery Queen's
Mystery Club was a short-lived
experiment specializing in short-story
collections and anthologies,
almost always reprints. This book, however,
contains only 3 of the 5
stories from The Amazing Adventures of
Lester Leith; the remaining 2
stories are previously uncollected. They
were apparently not published
in EQMM.
The Adventures of Paul Pry. New York: Mysterious Press,
1990.
1st edition. Rogue- detective stories from
the pulps, 1930-1933.
Dead Men's Letters. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990.
Contains 6 stories about Ed Jenkins "The
Phantom Crook" from Black Mask,
1926- 1927.
The Blonde in Lower Six. New York: Carroll & Graf,
1990.
Contains 4 Ed Jenkins
stories--3 short stories from Black Mask, 1927-1928 and a
novella from Argosy, 1961.
Honest Money and Other Short Novels. New York: Carroll &
Graf, 1991.
Contains 6 stories about Ken
Corning, a crusading lawyer, from Black Mask, 1932-
1933.
The last 4 volumes were assembled by pulp expert Bob
Weinberg.
Doug
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