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Erle Stanley Gardner used to take about 3 days for a Perry Mason novel, once he had discovered that if his legal secretary could take down his own court case notes for him, surely she could take down a novel if he dictated it on the fly. It worked. 73 Perry Masons later... All short, it must be said: 45,000 to 50,000 words, about the size of a Maigret book.
I doubt he ever outlined; most of his books had a key issue, which Mason unravelled at the end, and the rest of the book, rushing around, conflicts with Tragg and D A Burger, led up to that key issue. I seem to recall his editing process was a quick read through to spot any glaring errors.
Prolific authors rarely outline. Asimov never did.
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