On the Mojave Trail
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Old prospector Jake Hand knows the Mojave Desert, and he knows people even better. When a frightened woman and her impatient companion are stranded along a lonely highway, Jake quickly senses that something is wrong. Armed with a sharp eye, a talent for outrageous lies, and a stubborn sense of justice, he steps into a dangerous domestic drama unfolding beneath the desert sun. Erle Stanley Gardner blends Western adventure, dry humor, and clever deception in this lively tale of a desert “rat” whose stories may prove more useful than the truth.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970) was an author and lawyer who wrote nearly 150 detective and mystery novels that sold more than one million copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time. He ranks as one of the most prolific specialists of crime fiction due to his popular alter ego, lawyer-detective Perry Mason. A self-taught lawyer, Gardner was admitted to the California bar in 1911 and began defending poor Chinese and Mexicans as well as other clients. Eventually his writing career, which began with the pulps, pushed his law career aside. As proven in his Edgar Award–winning The Court of Last Resort, Gardner never gave up on the cases of wrongly accused individuals or unjustly convicted defendants.
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