I've read a number of Cool & Lam books and I like each
and every one. If you get a chance, you should also read
Gardner's other non-Mason characters. He's written a bunch of
others (Lester Leith, Ed Jenkins, Paul Pry, etc.) both before
and after the Mason stuff was written.
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I'd only ever read a few shorts by Gardner. I
liked them well enough,
but I never moved on to his novels. Perhaps I was
intimidated by the
number of them or had misconceptions based on the
Perry Mason TV show.
Anyway, the recent endorsements of the Lamm and
Cool series led me to
pick up Top of the Heap this afternoon. A
description in the second
paragraph let me know I was in the right place --
"He was built like a
secondhand soda straw, . . ."
Also, the Hard Case Crime edition looks great,
with its neo-vintage
cover. My first buy of what I am sure will be
very many. I wish them
and Point Blank Press (whose books also look
great, though in a very
different style) the best of luck. They print my
kind of books.
Mark
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