![]() ![]() ![]() Although Mason never appeared in its pages, Gardner published a six short stories starring a crusading defense lawyer named Ken Corning who fought against injustice in a corrupt city, serving as a rough template - and some say a trial run - for Mason. Gardner was one of the leading writers for Black Mask, the legendary hard-boiled crime fiction magazine. I like Gardner’s work generally - he’s a wonderfully readable author - but later books are much tamer, ‘medium boiled’, if anything.” Mason is definitely seen as a sort of Sam Spade-like character, willing to twist the law to serve his own higher ideals of justice. ![]() In the first ten or so books by pulpmeister Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry comes off as a particularly hard-boiled lawyer/detective, throwing his weight around, breaking and entering, and other private eye shenanigans, not above keeping a bottle of whiskey in his desk or roughing up a suspect or two - one of Gardner’s long line of corner-cutting heroesĪs Doug Bassett pointed out on Rara Avis once upon a time, “The first Mason, The Case of the Velvet Claws, in particular, is certainly hard-boiled. P ERRY MASON is Raymond Burr as a Defense Attorney, right? ![]()
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