Fools Die On Friday – Erle Stanley Gardner

When the firm is hired to stop a woman from poisoning her husband, Lam inadvertently sets in motion the exact thing he was trying to stop.  With multiple corpses and leads that don’t line up, he has to try and put everything together before the police, and Bertha, place the blame on him.

Fools Die On Friday, originally published in 1947, was the eleventh installment of the Cool and Lam series Erle Stanley Gardner wrote under the pseudonym of A. A. Fair, and the sixth republished by Hard Case Crime.  These pulps bring you back to a different, simpler time, where the world wasn’t wired (in more ways than one) the way it is today.  It’s been nearly three years now between installments, and I don’t know if that was due to the pandemic and associated problems or if the imprint is moving on to other endeavors.  But, if they re-publish more, I’ll be waiting.