Review: Shills Can't Cash Chips

 

            Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the famous Perry Mason novels, also wrote several novels about the investigative firm of Cool & Lam under the name, A. A. Fair.  After years of being out of print, they have been republished.

Shills Can’t Cash Chips is one of the Cool & Lam novels.  Lam is a lady’s man, and Cool is his rough-talking, impatient female partner.

Cool & Lam are called on to investigate a simple car accident, but as they press the eyewitnesses – even Lam, who pretends to be one – their stories don’t hang together.  So, they go to dangerous lengths to prove that the car accident was meant to cover up something much bigger.

This is not Perry Mason and Della Street, but it is a highly enjoyable story that any Erle Stanley Gardner fan should enjoy.

            [This review appears on my blog, Amazon.com, and Goodreads.com.]