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 drowsy mosquito
  The case of the drowsy mosquito 1943
• The case of the sleepwalker's niece
  The case of the sleepwalker's niece 1936
• The case of the mischievous doll
  The case of the mischievous doll 1963
• The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary

  
  The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary 1955
• The Case of the Hesitant Hostess

  
  The Case of the Hesitant Hostess 1953
• The case of the angry mourner

  
  The case of the angry mourner 1951
• Erle Stanley Gardner, seven complete novels

  
  Erle Stanley Gardner, seven complete novels 1979
• The case of the spurious spinster
  The case of the spurious spinster 1961
• The case of the screaming woman
  The case of the screaming woman 1957
• The Case of the Empty Tin
  The Case of the Empty Tin 1941
• The Case of the Nervous Accomplice
  The Case of the Nervous Accomplice 1955
• The case of the borrowed brunette
  The case of the borrowed brunette 1946
• The case of the fenced-in woman
  The case of the fenced-in woman 1972
• The Case of the One-Eyed Witness
  The Case of the One-Eyed Witness 1950
• The case of the duplicate daughter
  The case of the duplicate daughter 1960
• All grass isn't green

  
  All grass isn't green 1970
• The case of the troubled trustee

  
  The case of the troubled trustee 1965
• The Oxford book of detective stories

  
  The Oxford book of detective stories 2000
• The Case of the Perjured Parrot

  
  The Case of the Perjured Parrot 1987
• The case of the negligent nymph

  
  The case of the negligent nymph 1950
• The case of the careless cupid
  The case of the careless cupid 1968
• The case of the long-legged models
  The case of the long-legged models 1958
• The Case of the Silent Partner
  The Case of the Silent Partner 1986
• The case of the singing skirt
  The case of the singing skirt 1959