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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
1937.
Language
English
Description
The little clergyman had died peacefully in bed in the Madison Hotel. But Douglas Selby, recently elected District Attorney, suspected there was more to this death than meets the eye, and soon knew that something was definitely wrong. So Doug finds himself faced not only with a wily murderer, but with virulence from a hostile press, reluctant witnesses, and a film star unwilling to explain why she was on the spot.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
1938.
Language
English
Description
Douglas Selby, the ambitious young District Attorney of the territory around Madison City, had up before him a young man guilty of embezzling a comparatively small sum of money which he had spent gambling. Selby could have locked him up-- and perhaps ruined his life. But he wanted to find the how and the why of this otherwise law-abiding young man's gambling. Selby's investigations led him to a hit-and-run motorcycle accident, to blackmail, and to...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1947.
Language
English
Description
Bill Eldon is a slow-spoken genial sheriff who is more tracker than detective. The ambitious District Attorney or the campaigning publisher of the Rockville Gazette, with their faith in fingerprints and lie-detectors, might think Eldon dated, but he knows Rockville County inside out. In The Clue of the Runaway Blonde the body of a girl is found on a freshly ploughed strip of land. And in The Clue of the Hungry Horse a young woman has apparently been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books Inc., distributed by William Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
Description
"Erle Stanley Gardner's famous character, Doug Selby, is back in a lightning-paced mystery -- in which a drunken car thief volunteers a confession that points to a twisting trail of murder ..."--
In Southern California, a car goes out of control and the D. A. finds a body. The dead man's clothes don't fit and why should a ten-year-old letter be so important? Why does Carmen Freelman act so nervous? Selby has help from Sylvia Martin, a lovely newshound,...
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