Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as weak and inept.

( 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.

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.

The producers of the show allowed Burr to try for the title role and when Gardner, who was present at the audition, saw him he declared, " He is Perry Mason.

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

An alternative story, which appeared in some obscure magazine many years ago, said that Gardner liked and used pens made by a company owned by one Mr Perry and one Mr Mason ; but this would be very difficult to verify.

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 ".

Gardner inserts his ideas about the importance of proper autopsies into many of his Mason novels.

It had little in common with the usual portrayal of Mason, so much so that Gardner withdrew his support for a TV version of the daytime serial in favor of the Prime Time Emmy-Award winning courtroom drama.

The daytime soap opera The Edge of Night was originally meant to be a daytime version of Perry Mason, until Gardner had a falling-out with CBS network officials.

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.

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.

CBS insisted that Mason be given a love interest to placate daytime soap opera audiences, but Gardner flatly refused to take Mason in that direction.

Gardner would eventually patch up his differences with CBS and Perry Mason would debut in prime time in 1957.

* March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason author

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

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.

There are several instances of sexual tension between Mason and Street in the Gardner novels ; multiple glances, kisses, etc.

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.

The character portrayed in the radio series was reworked into Sara Lane on the daytime show Edge of Night which was to be the daytime Perry Mason, until Gardner pulled his support of the project.

Over at Warner Brothers studios, the Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner were faithfully adapted into a series of six films from 1934 to 1937.

After considering the names Kent, Carlyle, and Gardner, for the governor of Massachusetts, it was decided to name named the town for Bloomington banker, lawyer, and land developer Asahel Gridley ( 1810 – 1881 ).

Davis worked as a lawyer in private practice from 1982 to 1988, when he became a partner in the Tampa-based business law firm of Bush, Ross, Gardner, Warren & Rudy.

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.

Heywood was a Gardner businessman, who renamed it The Stone Silver Shop, and later, Stone Associates.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

The plates were packed in cotton wool and returned to Gardner in London, who sent an " ecstatic " telegram to Conan Doyle, by then in Melbourne.

Gardner claimed to have learned the beliefs and practises that would later become known as Gardnerian Wicca from the New Forest Coven, who initiated him into their ranks in 1939.

After his retirement Gardner moved to Highcliffe near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved their historic occult practices.

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, later identified the woman who initiated Gardner as Dorothy Clutterbuck, referenced in A Witches ' Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

In 1953 Gardner met Doreen Valiente who was to become his High Priestess in succession to Dafo.

" Specialising in the import of hardwood, the company had been founded in the mid-18th century by Edmund Gardner ( b. 1721 ), an entrepreneur who would subsequently become a Freeman of Liverpool.

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

Gardner would rarely see Harold, who went on to study Law at the University of Oxford, but saw more of Bob, who drew pictures for him, and Douglas, with whom he shared his nursery.

Here, Gardner made friends with an American man known as Cornwall, who had converted to Islam and married a local Malay woman.

Cornwall was however an unorthodox Muslim, and his interest in local peoples included their magical and spiritual beliefs, to which he also introduced Gardner, who took a particular interest in the kris, a ritual knife with magical uses.

En route back to London in 1932 Gardner stopped off in Egypt and, armed with a letter of introduction, joined Sir Flinders Petrie who was excavating the site of Tall al-Ajjul in Palestine.

He also befriended the archaeologist and practicing Pagan Alexander Keiller, known for his excavations at Avebury, who would encourage Gardner to join in with the excavations at Hembury Hill in Devon, also attended by Aileen Fox and Mary Leakey.

Gardner wanted to stay in Malaya, but he conceded to his wife Donna, who insisted that they return to England.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

Biographer Philip Heselton suggested that through the nudist scene Gardner may have also met Dion Byngham ( 1896 – 1990 ), a senior member of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry who propounded a Contemporary Pagan religion known as Dionysianism.

Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.

Although sceptical of the Rosicrucian Order, Gardner got on well with a group of individuals inside the group who were " rather brow-beaten by the others, kept themselves to themselves.

In this Hollywood back-story movie, Bogart again is the broken-down man, this time the cynical director-narrator who saves his career by making a star of a flamenco dancer Ava Gardner, modeled on the real life of Rita Hayworth.

The pioneers of the various Wiccan or Witchcraft traditions, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane, all claimed that their religion was a continuation of the pagan religion of the Witch-Cult following historians who had purported the Witch-Cult's existence, such as Jules Michelet and Margaret Murray.