A. A. Fair
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Jarvis C. Archer was a very big fish in a very big pond. He also was one of those "Big I -- Little You" types. And he was insisting on twenty-four-hour protection for his secretary who, despite an unlisted number, was being harassed by threatening telephone calls. At first Bertha Cool was outraged by the sweatshop hours (for obvious reasons she would have to take the night shift), but the size of the fee was both soothing and persuasive. So Cool and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Description
When Donald Lam and Bertha Cool cut in on a deal, they "Cut thin to win." The man's name was Clayton Dawson. The Cool-Lam Agency was so well known he'd come from Denver for help on highly confidential matter... After adjusting to the fact that "Cool" was a woman (a "Big Bertha" as it turned out) and "Lam" looked like he couldn't hurt a fly (an outrageous deceit), Dawson shelled out a fat retainer and put his cards on the table. The question was: Were...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Blackmail was a dirty business and Donald Lam liked to stay clear of it. But for his partner, Bertha Cool, no business was too dirty to handle at the right price. And the price for this job was certainly right. What was wrong, though, was a payoff for pictures that weren't worth a dime, a free dinner that cost the blackmailer his life, and more than a couple of double-crosses that framed Donald Lam quite neatly for a charge of murder ...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason -- at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Last year, Hard Case Crime brought out the first new Cool and Lam novel in decades, THE KNIFE SLIPPED, lost for 77 years after Gardner's publisher refused...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
English
Description
Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party -- least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun -- when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: An impossible murder...
8) Up for grabs
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
In this case concerning a whiplash injury, it's a question of whose neck is at stake. Bertha Cool was in a flap. The distinguished Mr. Homer Breckinridge had been waiting twenty minutes for Donald Lam to make an appearance, and around Mr. Breckinridge was the heady aroma of C-A-S-H. Then Donald appeared and in no time found himself hired to investigate an insurance claim. "Such nice, safe, respectable work," purred Bertha, "and it's up for grabs."...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
One morning Barclay Fisher awakes in the apartment of a beautiful woman. He is threatened with blackmail-- and he is pretty sure his wife will never understand. Hence his pitiful appeal to Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Bertha smells money, and Donald heads for San Francisco. There he has quite a time with the glamorous "other woman," a disconcerting and hilarious encounter with modern art, and a very nasty turn when he finds the body.
10) The count of 9
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-136
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party - least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun - when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: AN IMPOSSIBLE MURDER..."--Back cover.
