Owls don't blink

Pages: 277
Published: 1942
Language: English

Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, a Los Angeles detective duo, are hired by a New York lawyer to track down a person of interest in New Orleans. The lawyer refuses to name his client, immediately raising suspicions about the true nature of the case. As Cool and Lam dig deeper, they uncover a web of secrets and shady dealings.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was a prolific American author. A former lawyer, he is best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A...