Yesterday's NewsScan had a feature on Gardner--said he
started off as a hardboiled writer for the pulps and later
made his protagonists more cerebral for middle-brow
appeal.
His first job was as a lawyer's
typist, probably the source of his prolific speed as a
writer. When he became a lawyer, he represented the poor and
minorities and then wrote about the mean streets he
knew.
When rich and famous, he founded the
Court of Last Appeal to free innocent convicts.
Joy, the impressed
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