6/6/2023 0 Comments Top of The Heap by A.A. Fair![]() ![]() Hired by Bertha Cool as the sole operative in her detective agency, Donald Lam is tasked with tracking down Morgan Birks, currently in hiding after his role in a betting scandal came to light, and serving him with divorce papers so his wife Sandra can move on with her life. ![]() Lam to the Slaughter (1939) finds a pair of great characters still unformed, and makes a good time out of a fun premise while not yet reaching the heights this series would. Famously written by Gardner to prove that he could get a book published on merit alone, The Bigger They Come, a.k.a. Fair nom de plume for the next decade (and then the 88 Perry Mason books will see me well into retirement). At that rate, I shall be reading the 30 Bertha Cool and Donald Lam books published by Gardner under his A.A. A little while ago, on this very blog, it took me just under three years to work my way through the nine novels Erle Stanley Gardner wrote about D.A. ![]()
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