K Montin wrote: Erle Stanley Gardner, This Is Murder (1935)
This time our hero is an ad man! Sam Moraine happens to be
playing poker with his friend the DA and his investigator
(note the absence of a defence lawyer) when they are called
out to talk to a woman whose sister is missing--she fears
murdered by her husband.
******* That's interesting, K. I recall an earlier post
mentioning a pre-Perry Mason protagonist occurring in a few
Black Mask
(?) stories, but I didn't know that he much besides Perry
Mason stories once he got started on them.
I thought CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS was entertaining and might
try a few more of the early ones one of these days.
miker
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