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	Donald Lam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He begins his adventures as the employee of Bertha Cool, a stout widow in her 60s who started their detective agency in 1936.
		Donald eventually became such a moneymaker for Bertha that she relented when he put the pressure on her for a full partnership in "Double or Quits." In a case involving double indemnity in the event of death by accidental menas, Donald knew the legal difference between it and accidental death.
		In "Bats Fly at Dusk", Bertha takes a case brought to her by a blind man. Donald was able to correspond via telegraph, and gave her solid advice, much of which Bertha rejected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Lam (678 words)

	The Mystery Read - Erle Stanley Gardner
		Bertha is a "mountain of a woman" with diamonds on her fingers and a nose for the client's cash.
		Bertha maintains her weight loss from Spill the Jackpot, Elsie Brand is revealed to have a private life very different from her professional life and Donald pretends to be involved with the girl as opposed to being involved with the girl.
		While Bertha watches the bottom line, drinks Planter's Punches and goes native in a muu-muu, Donald finds himself closely aligned with the widow who is suspected of not being able to wait for her business relationship to terminate in a natural course and her friend, another open-minded young golddigger.
	users.vnet.net /ellingtn/mysteryread/gardnerfr.html (2099 words)

	Bertha Armyworm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Bertha armyworm eggs are laid in single-layered clusters of about 50 to 500 eggs on the lower surface of the host plant leaves.
		Bertha armyworms survive the winter as pupae in the ground at depths of five to 16 cm (two to six in.).
		Bertha armyworm outbreaks appear to be favored by snow accumulation, which protects pupae from prolonged exposure to temperatures below minus 10º C. The trend toward reduced tillage and stubble conservation results in more snow accumulation on infested fields and could favor bertha armyworm survival, especially in years with early snowfall.
	www.agr.gov.sk.ca /DOCS/crops/integrated_pest_management/insects/Berthawo.asp (2094 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Bertha could still remember clearly the little inn at which they had stayed, the riverside garden in which they used to sit after sunset, and those quiet, rather tedious, evenings which were so completely different from those her girlish imagination had previously pictured to her as the evenings which a newly-married couple would spend.
		Bertha gazed long after them, and noticed that one of the ladies turned round, and that the object of her attention was the carriage which followed immediately behind, and in which sat a young and very handsome man in a long grey overcoat.
		Bertha let her talk and hesitated to interrupt her with a word, as though she were a somnambulist wandering on the ridge of a roof.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext06/8brgr10.txt (22846 words)

	Bertha Armyworm - Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Bertha armyworm is native to North America and belongs to a group of insects referred to as "climbing cutworms." Also included in this group are the true armyworm and variegated cutworm.
		Bertha armyworms survive the winter as pupae in the ground at depths of 5 to 16 cm (2 to 6 in.).
		Bertha armyworm outbreaks appear to be favored by snow accumulation, which protects pupae from prolonged exposure to temperatures below -10°C. The trend toward reduced tillage and stubble conservation results in more snow accumulation on infested fields and could favor bertha armyworm survival, especially in years with early snowfall.
	www.gov.mb.ca /agriculture/crops/insects/fad03s00/bertha.html (2023 words)

	From Top of the Heap
		I believe it is B. Cool," he announced, glancing toward the names painted on the frosted glass of the doorway to the reception room.
		Bertha’s chair squeaked as she moved her hundred and sixty-five pounds around so as to pick up the newspaper clipping on the far corner of her desk.
		I said, "Their suitcases must have been in the car, according to Billings’s statement." Bertha sat there in her squeaking swivel chair, her fingers drumming nervously on the top of the desk, making the light scintillate from the diamonds with which she had loaded her fingers.
	www.hardcasecrime.com /books_bios.cgi?entry=bk3&type=excerpt (2873 words)

	chapter1
		Bertha waved at the new woman with the dark crew cut who worked in Lilith’s Book Store and hurriedly pushed through the revolving doors into the Lambert Building, where the marble lobby felt cool.
		Bertha called his mother aside after the others were gone and asked her to put together the details for the wage assignment, child support, medical costs and everything else the divorce agreement said Mr.
		Bertha pulled a pen from the center drawer and a legal pad from the bottom of one of the stacks on her desk.
	marthamiller.home.insightbb.com /4miller-chapter1.htm (2432 words)

	Early Female Authors of Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		First appearing in 1939, Cool was a "hefty" two-hundred-pound widow, somewhere in her forties or fifties, a tightwad who chain-smoked and the first character in the genre to swear (according to Frank B. Robbins).
		Cool intimidates diminutive Donald Lam, a suspended lawyer whom she hires to be her go-fer.
		Both Bertha Cool and Amy Brewster are defined against the genre's stereotypes, particularly the femme fatale: they are not attractive, not home-bound, and not submissive, either conversationally or professionally.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/FemaleAuthors.HTM (1118 words)

	Fort Worth Weekly Online -- fwweekly.com \| Music \| The Birth of Cool
		Sure, this story is about Bertha Coolidge, the quartet that formed out of the Black Dog scene (and other concentric circles, the axis of which is jazz).
		More surprising is that when Bertha Coolidge comes together, they bring with them a variety of influences ranging from the old-school country of Hank Williams to the screaming guitar of Jimi Hendrix.
		While Bertha Coolidge has only been together about a year, they've managed to cook up some of the tastiest post-modern jazz recipes this side of New Orleans.
	www.fwweekly.com /issues/2001-07-05/music.html (1018 words)

	Bertha Cool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Bertha Cool is a fictional American detective created Erle Stanley Gardner under his penname "A. Fair." (275 pounds) and in her 60s Cool her own detective agency in 1936 after husband Henry died.
		In the first book her The Bigger They Come (1939; British: Lam to the Slaughter) she hired Donald Lam a disbarred lawyer only 5' 6" (125 pounds) and the duo appeared in than two dozen books.
		Moto, Subversion, Toponymy, Charlie Chan, Earl Derr Biggers, North Walsham & Dilham Canal, British toponymy, Erle Stanley Gardner, Bertha Cool, Donald Lam, A.
	www.freeglossary.com /Bertha_Cool (348 words)

	Cat Fights by Valerie Schultz, America: The Catholic Weekly Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Her clothes are it, her crowd is tough, and she and her sister have the run of the streets after school, the daughters of allegedly pot-smoking, self-absorbed parents.
		From the first day of school, at every break, Bertha and her best pal—I’ll call her Prunilla—have followed my daughter, harassing her, taunting her, threatening her, shoving her around, so that eventually my daughter was afraid to leave when a class was over.
		Bertha and Prunilla gradually wipe my daughter’s presence from the face of their earth, and probably seek fresh blood and terror.
	www.americamagazine.org /gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=9&textID=2243&issueID=385 (1355 words)

	Erle Stanley Gardner: Furien im Finstern
		Detektivin Bertha Cool soll zunächst nur eine vermisste Frau suchen.
		Bertha Cool, schwergewichtige Chefin einer kleinen Detektei, ist noch missgestimmter als üblich.
		Lam nimmt Bertha wie sie ist, was wohl die einzige Möglichkeit für eine fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit bietet.
	www.krimi-couch.de /krimis/erle-stanley-gardner-furien-im-finstern.html (1239 words)

	Encyclopedia: Erle Stanley Gardner
		Raymond Burr Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21, 1917 â€“ September 12, 1993) was an actor, most known for his roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
		Under the penname A. Fair he also wrote a series of novels about private detectives Bertha Cool and Donald Lam.
		Bertha Cool is a fictional American detective created by Erle Stanley Gardner under his penname A. Fair.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Erle-Stanley-Gardner (665 words)

	Sleuths of Size (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		All the Bertha Cool books are out of print, but when I tracked down a couple in a used bookstore, I found that Bertha confesses she gained all that weight on purpose to spite her cheating ex-husband and the male population in general.
		The first Bertha Cool book was written in 1939, and clearly the author bought into this ugly myth—as some people do to this day.
		Selma Eichler’s Desiree Shapiro is a long-awaited heir to Bertha Cool, a plus-size private investigator in New York.
	www.radiancemagazine.com /issues/1999/summer_99_sleuths_of_size.htm (2346 words)

	Personal Journal of Favorite Books: author Erle Stanley Gardner \| Perry Mason, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, The D.A.
		Perry Mason, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, The D.A. A Woman's Mythos
		The case looks so innocent that Bertha goes fishing, but she heads back in a hurry when Donald comes up with a couple of corpses and a confidence game --- and then he himself becomes the fish that almost doesn't get away.
		That brought Bertha Cool and Donald Lam into the act, as the indomitable detective duo discovered that emeralds could be a girl's worst enemy when they carried a price tag of murder....
	mythos.50megs.com /perrymasonlinks.html (765 words)

	Fayetteville Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Their book is "Cool Names for Babies." The don't-use-this-name chapter stems from the notion that no one is cool enough to carry some names for a lifetime.
		What Bertha wouldn't instantly be called ''Big?'' Delbert shortened to Del seems fine, but Hortense and Hyman could be tough to lug through high school without punches being thrown.
		A ''cool cool'' name would be one selected from a movie character, artist, athlete, musician or writer.
	www.fayettevillenc.com /printer.php?Story=5802007 (501 words)

	Bats Fly at Dusk- by A.A.Fair
		But Bertha has taken off some weight and is continuing to run the Cool Detective Agency in his absense.
		Bertha can't solve it on her own, but she doesn't want to admit she needs Donald's help.
		The explanation of the case is presented in a letter from Donald at the end, in sort of a variation of the "denoument in the parlor" style of mystery.
	www.t-one.net /~om/read/mystery/lam/batsdusk.htm (287 words)

	Diary of Delia Salome Thayer Hemstreet
		Bertha -- Bertha May Hemstreet Wilkinson, daughter of Delia and Albert.
		Bertha & I got part of our Cleaning done and the Churning done in the fore noon & Albert & Gene Brought a load of hay from the field.
		Bertha had a chill to day & was quite sick most of the day.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ok/county/logan/tidbits/dhemstreet.htm (7637 words)

	Buchwurm.info - Buchrezension: Furien im Finstern, Gardner, Erle Stanley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Außerdem kann Gardner einen dicken Pluspunkt kassieren: Seine Bertha Cool ist kein Engel mit goldenem Herzen, das sich unter der rauen Schale verbirgt.
		Berta Cool weiß trotz ihrer ewigen Verbalattacken sehr gut, was sie an ihm hat, ohne dass sie sich dadurch nachgiebiger zeigen würde.
		Deshalb reaktivierte er 1939 das Pseudonym A. Fair und erfand das ungleiche Detektivpaar Bertha Cool und Donald Lam, die bis 1970 29 ebenfalls sehr beliebte Abenteuer erlebten.
	www.buchwurm.info /book/anzeigen.php?id_book=723 (1262 words)

	Bats Fly at Dusk Summary / Study Guide
		Bertha Cool is very much a part of the seamy world of Bats Fly at Dusk.
		A mean 165 pounds (she once weighed 285), she has broad shoulders and a nasty enough temper to use her size to intimidate people.
		Blundering from one clue to the next, her interest is in gaining a share of any insurance payment to Josephine Dell or of an inheritance left by her recently deceased boss Harlow Milbers.
	www.enotes.com /bats-fly-qn (142 words)

	Craig's Book Club reviews Top of the Heap by Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.A. Fair (Hard Case Crime)
		The Cool and Lam books numbered 29 and were published between 1939 and 1970, around the same time that Gardner was writing the Mason novels.
		Though Top of the Heap is the thirteenth in the series, it also serves as a fine introduction to the characters, though mostly Lam, as the legman, is featured.
		But when Bertha calmly calls Donald into her office, sans explosion, he knows there must be a lot of money involved.
	www.geocities.com /craigsbookclub/topheap.html (483 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bigger They Come: Books: A. A. Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Now, Bertha Cool is also not the most likely head figure of a detective agency, although physically impressive she most certainly is. She's sixty-something with grey hair, sparkling eyes and a grandmotherly expression.
		She weighs in at over 300 pounds and is described as having the majesty of a snow capped mountain and the assurance of a steamroller.
		When Lam gets the job he is put to work immediately because if there's one thing Bertha Cool believes in it's getting her money's worth.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688031374?v=glance (682 words)

	Additional Quiz
		Bertha cool was a hot female...(or was she?)
		Bertha Cool is a fictional American detective created by
		Grade A Extra Large widow BERTHA COOL, the head of the B. Cool Confidential Investigations, isn't overly concerned with ethics.
	www.web-life.org /vb/t2828-.html (654 words)

	Sunrooms.QuickCity.biz - Bertha Minnesota sunroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Most of all, they have a cool 360 degree virtual tour.
		Bertha, Minnesota Real Estate Guru Reveals How To Sell Your House "As Is" For A Fair Price On The Date Of Your Choice In Bertha, Minnesota
		How to refinance your home mortgage in Bertha, Minnesota at the best rate with good, bad or ugly credit...
	sunrooms.quickcity.biz /Minnesota/Bertha/index.php3 (378 words)

	Hurricane Bertha North of Puerto Rico
		Here is Hurricane Bertha north of Puerto Rico, as photographed by the GOES-8 weather satellite at 0115 UTC (9 pm ADT or 8 pm EDT), 9 July 1996.
		Often, areas of strong drying correspond to sinking motion in the upper levels; and areas of high moisture content signal rising motion.
		Such is cearly the case with this image of Bertha, where tremendous amounts of moisture are being pumped high into the atmosphere near the center of the hurricane.
	www.spc.noaa.gov /coolimg/bertha1w.htm (259 words)

	citzine.ca > Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		In 1950, the two teams amalgamated, becoming the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
		Bertha Wilson stands out among Canadians as the first woman justice on the Supreme Court of Canada.
		An immigrant from Scotland, she arrived in Canada in 1949 already having earned a Masters Degree.
	www.citzine.ca /stuff.php?lng=e&sub=2&cid=189 (293 words)

	Erle Stanley Gardner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		He created the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason.
		Under the penname A. Fair he wrote a series of stories about private detectives Bertha Cool and Donald Lam.
		This page was last modified 22:46, 18 May 2004.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Erle_Stanley_Gardner (101 words)

	about:blank - Microsoft Internet Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		we played ddr, beatmania, outrun, daytona, puzzle bubble and then bertha came.
		then we left bertha at the arcade (sorry BB!) and sumin went home.
		(it sounds cool, 'ran all the way from her house'.
	jellywobble.diaryland.com (692 words)

	A DAY AT AUSCHWITZLAND
		Finally, it was their turn and Aunt Bertha stepped up
		Bertha took them to the commisary next and they got some
		Aunt Bertha then took the boys to the gift shop.
	www.subgenius.com /bigfist/fun/tales/X0003_Day_at_Auschwitzland.html (993 words)

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