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I like the detectives Donald Lam and Bertha Cool created by Erle Stanley Gardner in his series of 29 novels I am currently reading. Donald is about 5'6", weighs 130 pounds soaking wet, and gets beat up quite frequently. Two hundred pound plus Bertha Cool is the Senior partner of the detective agency and has the personality of a rabid grizzly except when a potential client is offering money. Then, she’s all sweetness and light. She’s also not adversed to soaking a client for as much as she can. Lam is a lot more brains than brawn and he knows how to handle Bertha. He is known to have been a lawyer who had his license to practice law suspended for a year for casually mentioning to a client that he, Donald, had worked out a way to commit a murder in such a way nobody could do anything about it.
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