{"product_id":"gold-comes-in-bricks-9781504074322","title":"Gold Comes in Bricks","description":"\u003cb\u003eFollowing a money trail leads a PI into danger in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of \u003ci\u003eTurn on the Heat\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brainy private detective Donald Lam is always one step ahead of the bad guys--but he's also smaller than them and typically gets beat up. That's why his boss, the ever-irascible Bertha Cool, has hired a martial arts master to teach him self-defense. The first class isn't easy for Donald, but he is rewarded with a new client . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Henry Ashbury is concerned about his daughter's recent spending habits. He wants Donald to find out where her money is going, without letting on that he's a detective. So, going undercover as Ashbury's trainer, Donald soon learns the story behind the daughter's finances. But when his investigation also turns up a dead body, the diminutive detective must teach the killer a lesson in justice . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lively wit and machinegun dialogue.\" --Ralph E. Vaughan, author of \u003ci\u003eMurder in the Goblins' Playground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gardner has a way of moving the story forward that is almost a lost art: great stretches of dialogue alternate with lively chunks of exposition, and the two work together perfectly, without sacrificing momentum.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was the top selling American author of the twentieth century, primarily due to the enormous success of his Perry Mason Mysteries, which numbered more than eighty and inspired a half-dozen motion pictures and radio programs, as well as a long-running television series starring Raymond Burr. Having begun his career as a pulp writer, Gardner brought a hard-boiled style and sensibility to his early Mason books, but he gradually developed into a more classic detective novelist, providing clues to allow astute readers to solve his many mysteries. For over a quarter of a century, he wrote more than a million words a year under his own name as well as numerous pseudonyms, the most famous being A. A. Fair. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534050070802,"sku":"9781504074322","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f46962c3-afad-4310-997f-871d96cca58a.jpg?v=1731419879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gold-comes-in-bricks-9781504074322","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}