Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was a prolific American author. A former lawyer, he is best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.

The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A. Fair, Carl Franklin Ruth, Carleton Kendrake, Charles M. Green, Charles J. Kenny, Edward Leaming, Grant Holiday, Kyle Corning, Les Tillray, Robert Parr, Stephen Caldwell, and once as the Perry Mason character Della Street ("The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts"). Three stories were published as Anonymous ("A Fair Trial", "Part Music and Part Tears", and "You Can't Run Away from Yourself" aka "The Jazz Baby")

• The case of the velvet claws

  
  The case of the velvet claws 1933
• The case of the crooked candle
  The case of the crooked candle 1940
• The case of the mythical monkeys
  The case of the mythical monkeys 1959
• Perry Mason
  Perry Mason 1989
• Cults!
  Cults!
• The Case of the Curious Bride
  The Case of the Curious Bride 1934
• The Case of the Rolling Bones

  
  The Case of the Rolling Bones 1939
• The case of the cautious coquette; The case of the crimson kiss; The case of the crying swallow
  The case of the cautious coquette; The case of the crimson kiss; The case of the crying swallow 1949
• The case of the careless kitten
  The case of the careless kitten 1942
• The case of the beautiful beggar

  
  The case of the beautiful beggar 1960
• Baker's dozen
  Baker's dozen
• Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
  Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
• The case of the sulky girl

  
  The case of the sulky girl 1937
• The case of the stuttering bishop
  The case of the stuttering bishop 1936
• The case of the foot-loose doll

  
  The case of the foot-loose doll 1958
• The case of the haunted husband
  The case of the haunted husband 1941
• The case of the lucky legs
  The case of the lucky legs 1934
• The case of the baited hook
  The case of the baited hook 1940
• The case of the shoplifter's shoe

  
  The case of the shoplifter's shoe 1938
• The case of the drowning duck
  The case of the drowning duck 1942
• A Perry Mason omnibus
  A Perry Mason omnibus 1956
• The case of the lame canary
  The case of the lame canary 1937
• The case of the counterfeit eye
  The case of the counterfeit eye 1935
• The Case Of The Worried Waitress (A Perry Mason Mystery)
  The Case Of The Worried Waitress (A Perry Mason Mystery) 1966