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The Gardner novels are all going back into print

posted 9 years ago by pc-privconfounder
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I suppose anyone with an interest would know this already, but Ankerwycke is releasing print runs of all the old Perry Mason novels. The first ten are in print as I write this, and the others will follow in order of original publication. Yippee!

[–] lawson14 9 years ago

Brings back memories. I think I jumped from Nancy Drew straight into the Perry Mason books.

[–] lewis-51 8 years ago

That's great. If you search around on the web, you can find them all as pdfs or mobis.

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

All of the Perry Mason novels are available through this site:

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/g/erle-stanley-gardner/

Sellers and prices vary; also some of the earlier books are available in omnibus volumes.

(I have no personal involvement with this site or its affiliates; I'm just a happy customer.)

[–] radio-97766 8 years ago

When you read some of the earliest books (from the 1930's) you may be shocked by some of the things you read. I bought some copies of those and was surprised to see a phrase I had never heard before in one of them.

At one point, either Perry says to Paul Drake or Paul says to Perry (I can't recall which), "Ah, now you've found the n&%%$r in the woodpile!"

Also, if you've read many Perry Mason books, as I have, you will find that Perry very often "slammed up the phone." I guess 70 years ago people slammed the phone up instead of down.

[–] slackersmom 8 years ago

When you read some of the earliest books (from the 1930's) you may be shocked by some of the things you read.

Yes, it's interesting to see the difference between book-Perry and TV-Perry. TV-Perry is very successful, suave, and sophisticated. Book-Perry is a little more coarse, the kind of lawyer you might expect to run across in one of the noir-ish private-eye books of the time. He wasn't a low-class ambulance-chasing shyster, but then he didn't seem to be the refined, well-connected idealist we see on TV, either.

But they're good reads. I found a few at my local library, so I'm not familiar with all of them.

[–] mchnive 8 years ago

I am a huge Perry Mason fan, and have been since youth. Now , here I am reading Gardner's novels that I purchase in paperback at a used book store. As good as the original TV show is, the books are even better.

[–] lawson14 8 years ago

I have fond memories of raiding my father's night stand for Perry Mason novels. My first leap into adult fiction from my usual diet of Cherry Ames, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, et al.