{"id":20057,"date":"2023-02-24T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20057"},"modified":"2023-02-24T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T23:05:14","slug":"book-9-of-52-fools-die-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/book-9-of-52-fools-die-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 9 (of 52) &#8211; Fools Die On Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20058\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20058\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie.jpg 313w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fools Die On Friday &#8211; Erle Stanley Gardner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.\u00a0 With multiple corpses and leads that don&#8217;t line up, he has to try and put everything together before the police, and Bertha, place the blame on him.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fools Die On Friday<\/em>, 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.\u00a0 These pulps bring you back to a different, simpler time, where the world wasn\u2019t wired (in more ways than one) the way it is today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been nearly three years now between installments, and I don&#8217;t know if that was due to the pandemic and associated problems or if the imprint is moving on to other endeavors.\u00a0 But, if they re-publish more, I&#8217;ll be waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 With multiple corpses and leads that don&#8217;t line up, he has to try and put everything together before the police, and Bertha, place the blame on him. Fools Die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7361,5332,10393,5327,10394],"class_list":["post-20057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-a-fair","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-fools-die-on-friday","tag-hard-case-crime","tag-lam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20059,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20057\/revisions\/20059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}