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Open Road/Mysterious Press seem to have recently gotten the rights to a bunch of Bertha Cool/Donald Lam books, and have been putting them on sale from time to time, but I just now noticed...

Right now, the third in the series, Gold Comes in Bricks, is $1.99 in the US, and it's discountable at Kobo. I like both Gardner's Perry Mason series, and the Cool/Lam series, but I think I have to give a slight edge to the Cool/Lam books - their partnership is a lot of fun, and less jarring in modern times than Mason's with Della Street.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VS3BCDV
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09VS3BCDV
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gold-comes-in-bricks-1

Spoiler:

Following a money trail leads a PI into danger in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Turn on the Heat.

Brainy private detective Donald Lam is always one step ahead of the bad guys—but he’s also smaller than them and typically gets beat up. That’s why his boss, the ever-irascible Bertha Cool, has hired a martial arts master to teach him self-defense. The first class isn’t easy for Donald, but he is rewarded with a new client . . .

Henry Ashbury is concerned about his daughter’s recent spending habits. He wants Donald to find out where her money is going, without letting on that he’s a detective. So, going undercover as Ashbury’s trainer, Donald soon learns the story behind the daughter’s finances. But when his investigation also turns up a dead body, the diminutive detective must teach the killer a lesson in justice . . .