The tough, stylish detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Jonathan Latimer, Erle Stanley Gardner and others explored the " mean streets " and corrupt underbelly of the United States.

( For example, the title of the Perry Mason detective novel The Case of the Negligent Nymph ( 1956 ) by Erle Stanley Gardner is derived from this meaning of the word.

Proverbs have been the inspiration for titles of books: The Bigger they Come by Erle Stanley Gardner and Birds of a Feather ( several books with this title ).

* July 17 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American author ( d. 1970 )

In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason, a new courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels written and created by Erle Stanley Gardner that was to air on CBS.

Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense attorney who was the main character in works of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner.

Erle Stanley Gardner " had spent more than twenty years practicing law in California, and the knowledge he gained was put to good use in the Perry Mason stories, which hinge on points of law, forensic medicine or science as clever as a watch mechanism ... and also the total lack of characterization ".

Author Susan Kandel wrote her debut mystery novel I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason ( 2005 ) about a woman, Cece Caruso, who is writing a biography of Erle Stanley Gardner.

Hapgood along with author Erle Stanley Gardner investigated the collection of clay artifacts known as the Acambaro figurines and became convinced they were made thousands of years ago by an unknown culture, a conclusion he acknowledged was rejected by reputable archeologists and paleontologists.

Similarly, the books by the equally successful American author Erle Stanley Gardner ( 1889 – 1970 ), creator of the lawyer Perry Mason, which have frequently been adapted for film, radio, and TV, were only recently republished in the United Kingdom — books such as The Case of the Stuttering Bishop ( 1937 ), The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister ( 1953 ), etc.

Paul Drake was the private detective in the Perry Mason series of murder mystery novels by Erle Stanley Gardner.

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Mason's creator Erle Stanley Gardner was to create and write the show, but a last-minute tiff between him and the CBS network caused Gardner to pull his support from the idea.

* Leopold, Nathan F. Life plus 99 Years, 1958 ( Introduction by Erle Stanley Gardner )

* Erle Stanley Gardner-The Case of the Sulky Girl

* March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason author

Erle Stanley Gardner, prolific author of mystery novels and the Perry Mason series, said of Grey:

His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind only Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.

Black Mask later published the profoundly influential Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and The Continental Op, and other hardboiled writers who came in his wake, such as Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis, Raoul F. Whitfield, Theodore Tinsley, W. T.

and Erle Stanley Gardner.

Della Street was the fictional secretary of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner.

See Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason, p. 102.

See " Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason " p. 331.

Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason in a series of novels, was a very prolific author, who employed three secretaries simultaneously, all sisters, to keep up with his output.

In 1958, he was cast as private eye Donald Lam in a pilot episode of Cool and Lam, based on the books by Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.

* Erle Cocke, Jr., U. S. National Guard general

# A shortened form of * Eleraha, where * Eler in Old German * olisa or Old Slavic olsa ( Polish: olsza ) would mean Erle (" alder ") and aha ( pronounced in German: Acha ) is an old word frequently used in river names to mean " water " ( c. f.

Five of them, Sir Thomas Darnell, Sir John Corbet, Sir Walter Erle, Sir John Heveningham and Sir Edmund Hampden, attempted to gain their freedom, petitioning the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus.

Gelsenkirchen is home of the famous football club Schalke 04, which is named after the borough Schalke, while the club's arena, the Veltins-Arena, is located in the borough Erle.

Ronald Erle “ Ron ” Grainer ( 11 August 192221 February 1981 ) was an Australian-born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom.

* Erle P. Halliburton ( 1892 – 1957 ), founder of the oil and luggage companies

In 1919, Erle Halliburton started the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company.

The stock of the corporation was owned by Erle and Vida Halliburton and by seven major oil companies: Magnolia, Texas, Gulf, Humble, Sun, Pure and Atlantic.

Erle P. Halliburton died in Los Angeles in 1957.

Lunden was born as Joan Elise Blunden in Fair Oaks, California, the daughter of Gladyce Lorraine ( née Somervill ) and Erle Murray Blunden, who was a physician .< ref >

* after this Examinant together with the said Robert Clarke went from the fort to the towne of Galway: vpon whose comeing there was a Court of assembly called where were present the Maior Adermen and burgesses of the towne or the < A > greater part of them, and likewise Mr Patrick Darcy & Mr Martin Lawyeres Before whom this Examinant and the said Robert Clark were called And this Examinant shewing the said warrant before the said assembly, the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin being present, They the said Mr Darcy & Mr Martin Did there publickly declare that it was treason in this Examinant and the said Clark to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by virtue of the said warrant ( they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties subjects ) And therevpon committed both of them to the towne gaole of Galway where they remained for the space of 10 or 12 dayes following vntil they were released by the Erle of Clanrickard, And this Examinant further saith That the said Erle of Clanrickard did make an end of the said differences betweene the merchant of the said shipp & the said Robert Clarke, and did assure the said Clarke that all things shold be fairly carried But the said Erle Leaving the said towne of Galway the said Dominick Keghran factor to the said Tho: Linch with divers others, ( by the direction of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin ( as this examinant verely beleeveth went aboard the said shipp & carrjed with them seuerall boats, vpon pretence to vnlade the salt, And vpon their comeing to the said shipp ( the said Clark being at the fort, and some of his men to out of the ship to fetche Ballast ) entered the said ship and killd the Masters Mate and twoe or 3 more of the men aboard the said shipp and wounded seuerall others there, & soe possessed themselues wholly of the said shipp, being of the burden of three hundred tun or thereabouts, And likewise tooke out of the said shipp, about tenn peece of ordinance, which were landed presently, and planted against his Maiesties fort And further this Examinant saith That in the beginning of the Rebellion, vntill such tyme as the said Mr Darcie and Mr Martin came to the towne of Galway, they within the said fort were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their moneys But after the comeing of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin to the said towne, the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght, to come into the said towne, whoe robbed this examinant and the English Inhabitants within the said towne and Killd & murthered seuerall of them: Amongst which they cut off the heads of one John Fox & his wiffe, and murthered one Mris Collins as she was kneeling at her prayers, And as this examinant hath heard, after the said murders were comitted the Irish tumbled the heads of the heads of the said ffox & his wiffe about the streets, And further saith That at althoughe the said people of Err Connaght had robbed and murthered the English as aforesaid: yet neither the Maior or Aldermen of Galway aforesaid or the said Darcy < A > or Martin did any way punish the offenders, but rather abetted and manteined them in their barbarous cruelties And this Examinant further saith That after, by direction & helpe of the towne of Galway the said fort was s beseiged, And the townsmen of Galway hyred the Cuntry to doe the same Soe that the fort was inforced to yield about the xxvth of June 1643: Wherevpon this Examinant went into the towne of Galway to demand some of his goods according to the quarter given them, And in the meane time the shipping being in the harbour went away & left this examinant behynd Soe as he was inforced to get a Convoy to Bonrattee to the Erle of Thomond, And being there one Dunn servant of Sir Roger ô Shafnusy, related to the Erle of Thomond and him this Examinant, that he sawe the said Richard Martin whoe was then Major of Galway, vpon a Sunday morning with a pick ax in his hand setting people on work to domolish & pull downe the fort of Galway John Turner Jurat.

Hamilton Burger first appeared in Erle Stanley Gardner's 1935 novel, The Case of the Counterfeit Eye, the 6th novel in his Perry Mason series.

" An Uncommon Man ;" Erle P. Halliburton Monument in Memorial Park, Duncan, OK ; erected-1993

Among these works were equestrian portraits of Queen Victoria and the prince consort, painted for Christ's Hospital ; the Prince of Wales ; an equestrian group of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort ; Sidney Herbert, afterwards Lord Herbert of Lea ; Lord John Russell, afterwards Earl Russell ; Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Earl of Beaconsfield ; General Sir James Hope Grant ; Sir George Grey ; Edward, earl of Derby, first lord of the treasury ; Lord Clyde ; Viscount Palmerston, painted for Harrow School ; Viscount Gough ; Lord Truro, lord high chancellor ; Sir Frederick Pollock, lord chief baron ; Sir William Erle, lord chief justice of the common pleas ; John Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury ; George Moberly, bishop of Salisbury ; and John Gibson Lockhart.

SF editor David G. Hartwell has said that Harshaw was inspired by the wealth and luxurious lifestyle of Erle Stanley Gardner, the best-selling author and creator of Perry Mason ; Gardner was also a lawyer.

It is a first person narration, from the point of view of Aurora ; its other heroine, Marian Erle, is an abused self-taught child of itinerant parents.

* Sir William Baker ( British politician ) ( 1705 – 1770 ), British businessman and politician ; Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle

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Joining the midland circuit, he acquired a good practice, and on the recommendation of Chief Justice Sir William Erle he was appointed as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Queensland, Australia on 21 February 1863 ; he served until his retirement on 24 June 1879.