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Top of the Heap (Cool and Lam) マスマーケット – 2011/3/29

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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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224ページ
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Hard Case Crime
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2011/3/29
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10.52 x 1.22 x 17.37 cm
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0857683160
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978-0857683168
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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, not to mention the long-running TV series and TV movies) and the hardboiled detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, who appeared in more than two dozen adventures of their own.

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出版社 ‏ : ‎ Hard Case Crime (2011/3/29)
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2011/3/29
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
マスマーケット ‏ : ‎ 224ページ
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0857683160
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0857683168
寸法 ‏ : ‎ 10.52 x 1.22 x 17.37 cm

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Dr. DNA

classic film noir writing

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Fast, no b.s. lit writing here -- a scenario, really, script for the noir B-lot. Action without needless exposition... until the ending, that is. Good period read.

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Top of the Heap for thrills

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A very enjoyable entry in the 30-book Cool and Lam saga written by Erle Stanley Gardner (of Perry Mason fame), originally under the pseudonym AA Fair.
This book falls mid-series and is the first of six to appear thus far on the great Hard Case Crime label. The story finds cynical detective Donald Lam on the lam after a young man attempts to use his agency to create a false alibi. But a false alibi for what crime?
The book is full of twists and what really stands out in Gardner’s excellent writing is the well-thought-out plotting. It’s little wonder Gardner was such a successful writer. His storytelling is inventive and takes you on a rollercoaster ride of misdirection and unexpected turns.
Lam and his senior detective partner, the foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, money-crazed, supersized harridan Bertha Cool are terrific characters and I intend to pick up the other books in this series as quickly as possible!

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Excellent 1950s era Hardboiled Detective Story

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Erle Stanley Gardner is a lawyer who ran his law practice in Ventura, California. However, it is not clear how he ever found time to practice law. He is best known as the author of the Perry Mason series, which eventually became the basis for several feature-length films, a 12-year run of a radio program, and a television show starring Raymond Burr. There were, in all, eighty-two (count them) Perry Mason novels. Gardner was one of the best-selling authors of all time.

Gardner also wrote a mere 29 books in the Cool and Lam series under the pen name A.A. Fair. Bertha Cool and Donald Lam are partners in the private eye business. Top of the Heap was originally published in 1952 and has now been re-issued as part of the Hard Case Crime series. It is a truly excellent hardboiled detective novel. It does not focus on flowery descriptions, but is filled with action from page one right through to the end. It was an enjoyable, quick read, and, if Gardner’s other work is anything like this, sign me up for the reading list.

The plot is a little complicated, but it involves a John Carver Billings II demanding to see the senior partner of the firm. It seems that a mobster’s girlfiend has disappeared after he was shot at and, at some point in the evening, Billings was in her company, before she ditched him in a club. He says he left the club with two other women from San Francisco, that they went to a motel on Supelveda, but they were gone in the morning and he wants to know who they were because he wants to prove that he was not involved in any shenanigans involving the mobster’s girlfriend.

Cool is happy to get a high-paying client, but Lam is cautious about it and does not think it makes a lot of sense, particularly after he finds a clue in the motel room several days after his client vacated the room. Lam flies up to San Francisco to confront the girls and is convinced that his firm is being used to produce a phony alibi, but just what is being covered up and why. Lam does not like being used like this and is not going to stop until he gets to the bottom of it, even if Billings uses his influence to stop payment on the check he gave the firm and files charges to get Lam’s license pulled.

Ultimately, there is a lot of stuff that Lam uncovers, including a number of bodies, gangsters, gambling houses, point shaving, a former stripper now a rich widow, and phantom gold mines that are used to funnel money from gambling winnings.

This work feels in many ways typical of many of the hardboiled detective novels of the 1950s with a lone man going against criminals and the law, convinced of the justice of his own cause. I have not previously read any of Gardner’s work so I found myself pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Few books flow this smoothly and quickly with little pause in the action. Given the enormous output of Gardner over the years, it is surprising how good his work really was.

I highly recommend this one. It is, indeed, the top of the heap.

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Ein Höhepunkt aus der Lam/Cool-Serie

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Erle Stanley Gardner war bis zu seinem Tod 1970 einer der produktivsten amerikanischen Krimiautoren. Bekannt durch seine Romane um den Rechtsanwalt Perry Mason, hat er jedoch auch unter dem Pseudonym A.A. Fair das gegensätzliche Privatdetektivduo Donald Lam und Bertha Cool geschaffen, welche zwischen 1939 und 1970 die Helden von insgesamt 29 Büchern waren. Der Krimi "Top Of The Heap" aus dem Jahr 1953, jetzt in der Taschenbuch-Reihe Hard Case Crime endlich wiederveröffentlicht, gehört zu den Höhepunkten der Serie, welche in der Hardboild Tradition steht. Detektiv Lam soll darin das Alibi eines Klienten absichern, was ihm auch ohne Probleme gelingt. Irgendwie zu schnell und zu einfach, was sein Mißtrauen weckt. Er forsch weiter und stößt auf einen groß angelegten Betrugsfall, zwei Morde und die Möglichkeit das eine Menge Geld zu verdienen, falls er lange genug überlebt. Spannend und witzig zu lesen. Leider zur Zeit nur auf Englisch erhöltlich.

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Top of the Heap is pulp/noir fiction at its best

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Hard Case Crime has reached in the grab bag of classic hardboiled noir and in this, their third publication, reissued a winner. Erle Stanley Gardner, writing as A.A. Fair, originally published Top of the Heap in 1952. Gardner, himself, was kicked out of law school after a month but nevertheless passed the bar in 1911 and practiced until 1933. This, no doubt, gave him the insight to craft such realism into the body of crime novels he wrote under many Pen Names.

This book is one of the Lam/Cool Detective Agency books that were a popular series early in his career. This series was way ahead of its time in many ways including a woman, Bertha Cool, running the agency and Donald Lam being her hired man. Bertha is described as a "big woman except she was hard as a roll of barbed wire".

In this particular edition Lam gets wrapped up in the disappearance of the girlfriend of a gangster and the firm is hired by a man who needs an alibi. He runs into a web of characters who pull him into San Francisco, a mining scam, a stripper with a heart of gold, an illegal casino, a yacht club and murders scattered here and there.

The story was crafted by a master but the setting of 1952 only added to the enjoyment. The slang scattered through the book was charming and allowed the reader to immerse themselves in the time/place. Lam was told to "go roll his hoop"; when his boss was surprised she's let out with a "fry me for an oyster"; when assessing a suspect Lam described him as "His voice was like cold linoleum on bare feet". It doesn't get better than this.

Top of the Heap is pulp/noir fiction at its best. Don't miss this one.

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