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From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner—during his life, the best-selling American author of all time—comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool. Top of the Heap poses the question: SHE PLAYED THE ODDS...
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From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time - comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool.
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From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner—during his life, the best-selling American author of all time—comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool.
Top of the Heap poses the question: SHE PLAYED THE ODDS – AND LOST!
When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi—and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency. Donald tracks down the two women with whom his client claims to have spent the night and the client declares the case closed.
But it’s not. Something about his client’s story doesn’t add up, and Donald can’t resist the temptation to keep digging. Before he knows it, he’s dug up connections to a mining scam, an illegal casino, and a double homicide—plus an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune, if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in on it!
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781835411803
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hard Case Crime
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
One of the best-selling authors of all time, Erle Stanley Gardner’s greatest creations include crusading attorney Perry Mason (star of more than eighty novels, a TV series and TV movies) and the hardboiled detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, who appeared in more than two dozen adventures. An attorney himself, Gardner also founded the Court of Last Resort, a group that investigated criminal cases they believed had ended in wrong convictions.
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