Two clues : The clue of the runaway blonde ; The clue of the hungry horse
Erle Stanley Gardner (Author), William Morrow and Company (Publisher)
Bill Eldon is a slow-spoken genial sheriff who is more tracker than detective. The ambitious District Attorney or the campaigning publisher of the Rockville Gazette, with their faith in fingerprints and lie-detectors, might think Eldon dated, but he knows Rockville County inside out. In The Clue of the Runaway Blonde the body of a girl is found on a freshly ploughed strip of land. And in The Clue of the Hungry Horse a young woman has apparently been kicked to death in a dark stable... This is Bill's territory, and it is his feel for cornspun characters, cattle and crops -- and not the maneuvers of the smart lawyers and politicos -- that is crucial to deciphering both cases
Print Book, English, 1947
William Morrow & Company, New York, 1947