As an author, I understand that certain what they call tropes are popular in different genres. This the case of the Terrified Typist is fast-paced, unpredictable, novel, and thoroughly enjoyable. None of their stories are like any other story. I've been reading a lot of Charlotte McLeod(Peter Shandy Mysteries, etc), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), and Perry Mason or I mean Erle Stanley Gardner. I'm tired of magical cats, dogs who can outsmart their owners, women who've been divorced or lost a spouse or were jilted and having to move back to their hometown, baking or crafty sleuths, witches that are sleuths or houses that are haunted and have helpful ghosts or nasty murdering ghosts. More and more I find myself reading vintage murder mysteries. ![]() With the success of Perry Mason, he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely, except for non-fiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science. He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith, a "gentleman thief" in the tradition of Raffles, and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation, the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than eighty novels. ![]() In his spare time, he began to write for pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. ![]() Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A.
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