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Amateur Hour: A Baffling Murder, Perry Mason's Creator, and the Court of Last Resort
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In 1948, the world’s most popular mystery writer mobilized an army of amateur sleuths to help solve a real-life murder. What could go wrong?
Eighty years ago, Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the Perry Mason novels, was the most widely read living author on the planet. Fascinated by real-life police work, Gardner accepted a unique invitation—an opportunity to be on the inside of a homicide investigation from the start, working to solve the crime—that brought him to Boulder, Colorado, seventy-...
Eighty years ago, Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the Perry Mason novels, was the most widely read living author on the planet. Fascinated by real-life police work, Gardner accepted a unique invitation—an opportunity to be on the inside of a homicide investigation from the start, working to solve the crime—that brought him to Boulder, Colorado, seventy-...