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title: "Turn on the Heat (Hard Case Crime, 131)"
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# Turn on the Heat (Hard Case Crime, 131)

**Brand:** erle stanley gardner
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- **What is this?** Turn on the Heat (Hard Case Crime, 131) by erle stanley gardner
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Eye-Popping Cover-- Great Nostalgic Private Eye Fiction
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2023*

Been a fan of Gardner for ages-- His Cool and Lam series under the pseudonym A.A. Fair are excellent!  This is a great series, full of clever machinations and quasi-legal actions as the team of private eyes sorts out the murder mystery.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Absolutely Superb
  

*by R***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2017*

I loved the Cool & Lam novel, THE KNIFE SLIPPED and was delighted to see that Hard Case Crime had struck again in republishing what is reputed to be the best of the 29 novels in the series.  Bertha Cool is a stout, diamond-bedecked head of a detective agency that employs Donald Lam, an unfairly-disbarred attorney who lives by his wits rather than by his brawn and is, in general, the outside operative, while Bertha drinks, dines, makes calls, disperses money, dons diamonds and occasionally (but decisively) goes out in the field.  The setting is southern California, with some fictional cities and a Los Angeles which feels (appropriately) much smaller than its current incarnation.TURN ON THE HEAT, whose just-this-side-of-comic urgency title I love, begins as many such cases begin.  A dubiously-named “Mr. Smith” hires the agency to find a woman who disappeared over twenty years ago.  It looks like an estate case or a divorce case, something relatively small-scale but then it blossoms into something much larger: a world of graft, corruption, murder and things just this side of verifiable evil in a small town called Santa Carlotta.  “Mr. Smith” is closer to the heart of the action than we are originally led to believe and we eventually find ourselves looking into the private life of an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist whose life is related to a shifty small town newspaper publisher, his scrappy niece, some B girls at an even more shifty ‘club’, a nasty small-town cop and some tough dames who operate apartments, rooming houses and places just this side of flop houses.  The plot is very complex and at points just a little opaque, but the resolution is clear enough and quite satisfying.The high point of the novel is its stunning dialogue.  Elmore Leonard teaches us that we should always ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’ and that great dialogue reveals as much in a dozen words as two or three pages of description.  Here the dialogue is absolutely stunning, with Donald adjusting his phrasing very deftly with each of the many people with whom he interacts.  Dutch Leonard and Bob Parker are smiling down through the clouds and someone is patting Hemingway on the back.  ‘Look what you’ve wrought, kid.’Bottom line: welcome to the wonderful world created by Erle Stanley Gardner back in the day when he was writing as A. A. Fair and selling books in the millions.  I can’t say from experience (I’ve only read two) that this is the best of the Cool & Lam books, but it is absolutely superb.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A good read.......
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2022*

Turn on the Heat by A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)A man going by Mr. Smith is searching for his missing wife, he comes to Donald Lam and his partner Bertha Cool for help. Secrets, mystery, intrigue abound as Lam and Cool track down the mystery behind this disappearance.Written in 1940, with engaging dialog moving at a fast pace. Lam and Cool are likable, they work well with each other. Bertha is a bold woman, ahead of her time. Lam is great with the ladies. A perfect pair to uncover a decades old mystery. I highly recommend Turn on the Heat to those who enjoy 'pulp fiction'.

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