{"id":4875,"date":"2009-07-06T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2010-02-10T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:56:15","slug":"book-report-bachelors-get-lonely-by-a-a-fair-1961-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/book-report-bachelors-get-lonely-by-a-a-fair-1961-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Bachelors Get Lonely by A.A. Fair (1961, 1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, Erle Stanley Gardner wrote innumerable Perry Mason novels and far fewer in this series featuring Bertha Cool and Donald Lam.  A shame, really, because these are a touch more enjoyable than the lawyer novels.  They feature a small private detective who is irresistable to the ladies and who is quite easily roughed up.  A bit tongue in cheek, I think, but not burying the needle in Campy.<\/p>\n<p>In this book, a businessman hires the team to find a leak in his organization.  They do, easily, but Lam thinks something more is at work.  He finds a tangled web of love affairs, double-crosses, and women who like to take their clothes off.  Lam manages to dodge a murder rap and, of course, solve the crime to the chagrin of his boss and the local police.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be happy to find more of these in the wild.  Someday, I might have to actually order them by name if I cannot.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000BWY1HA&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, Erle Stanley Gardner wrote innumerable Perry Mason novels and far fewer in this series featuring Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. A shame, really, because these are a touch more enjoyable than the lawyer novels. They feature a small private detective who is irresistable to the ladies and who is quite easily roughed up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}