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NAME: Erle Stanley Gardner
OCCUPATION: Lawyer, Author
BIRTH DATE: July 17, 1889
DEATH DATE: March 11, 1970
EDUCATION: Valparaiso University School of Law
PLACE OF BIRTH: Malden, Massachusetts
PLACE OF DEATH: Temecula, California

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Erle Stanley Gardner was a U.S. detective novelist who wrote The Case of the Velvet Claws and other novels featuring the lawyer-detective Perry Mason.

Erle Stanley Gardner biography

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While practicing trial law, Erle Stanley Gardner wrote pulp fiction, basing the courtroom scenes and brilliant legal maneuvers on his own tactics. He gave up law following the success in 1933 of The Case of the Velvet Claws and The Case of the Sulky Girl, his first novels featuring the lawyer-detective Perry Mason. Eighty Perry Mason novels followed. He also wrote two other detective novels.

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