Complete Clue List
Across
1. Surrounded, this 1937 novelette featured Pete Wennick; "___ Thieves"
4. Roof covering, appearing in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1929; "A Clean ___ for Slider"
7. This 1933 criminal charge was written under the name Stephen Caldwell; "Framed for a ___"
8. A peeper for this 1926 short story; " ___ for a Tooth" (Two words 2,3)
9. A precise Lester Leith novelette from 1941; "The ___ Opposite"
10. 1939 novelette featuring Lester Leith; "The Hand is Quicker Than the ___"
11. Lawyer created by Erle Stanley Gardner; Perry ___
14. Expiring in 1947, novel features detectives Cool & Lam; "Fools ___ Friday" (Two words 3,2)
17. Sheriff Bill Eldon had more hints than needed in this 1947 tale; "Too Many ___"
20. A Gardner travel tale of life on the spot where the river divides; "Gypsy Days on the ___" (1967)
23. A right pair, 1936 novelette features Smith, Weston & Burke; "___ Sticks of Death"
24. Set to perish, a short story published in Argosy in 1936; "Slated ___" (Two words 2,3)
25. An angry 1953 short story featuring Perry (the lawyer); "The Case of the ___ Witness"
26. Medium sized car or one of Gardner's contemporaries, wrote "Full O' Larceny" (1916); SS ___ Dine
27. Neigh, a 1930 western short story that you can ride from Gardner; "A ___ for Fane"
28. A Spartan TV episode featuring Perry (the lawyer) from 1963; "The Case of the ___ Goddess"
Down
1. Nothing to be scared of from this 1932 siren featuring Lester Leith; "False ___"
2. Gardner behaves under the pseudonym Charles M Green for this 1925 tale; "Bloody Bill ___"
3. An envious novelette from 1932 featuring Sidney Zoom; "The ___ Door"
4. Young trial lawyer created by Gardner with a touch of velocity; ___ Dash
5. Short "buddy" story published in Argosy 1926; "___ for Effie A" (Two words 1,4)
6. Consumed 1952 novel featuring Gardner's lawyer; "The Case of the Moth ___ Mink"
12. A complete 1926 novelette featuring Ed Jenkins; "Forget 'Em ___"
13. A single chance in this 1926 short story; "Any ___ Named Smith"
15. A chilling tale featuring Perry (the lawyer); "The Case of the ___ Cold Hands" (1962)
16. An exit novelette featuring Ed Jenkins; "This Way ___" (1937)
17. Capture or apprehend, same word twice in this 1933 short story; "___ as ___ Can"
18. Sounds like surgery, 1937 novelette, featuring Win Layton ? Girl Reporter; "___ the Knife"
19. Regular Gardner character, appears in "Gunned Out" (1932); ___ Raney
20. A performing western short story from 1926; "___ It Up Brown"
21. It was time to go for this Pete Wennick novelette; "Take It or ___ It" (1939)
22. Showing his cards, 1932 short features The Patent Leather Kid; "Kid Stacks ___" (Two words 1,4)