Twisted Bars

by Erle Stanley Gardner

Pug Parry was such a gorilla that he could twist iron bars into loops. Phil Dunton was such a little jigger that they called him “Big Hat.” With the other hands of the Circle C outfit Phil acted right respectful before Pug’s terrifying strength—respectful, that is, until Pug trespassed on private range.

10 pages, ebook

Published January 20, 1926

About the author

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr.

Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. In his spare time, he began to write for pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith, a "gentleman thief" in the tradition of Raffles, and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation, the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than eighty novels. With the success of Perry Mason, he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely, except for non-fiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science.

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Reviews

[Susan Molloy · Rating 4 out of 5]

🖍️ An enjoyable short Western story with a ten-gallon hatful of humor. I liked this gem from Erle Stanley Gardner (creator of Perry Mason),

📕Published 1926. In the public domain.
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