#OnThisDay in 1889 lawyer, author, and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America Erle Stanley Gardiner was born. A a lawyer, Gardiner gave voice to those who were often denied one - the impoverished, immigrants, and the wrongly convicted - founding The Court of Last Resort in the 1940s. As an author, he saw success in the pulp magazines before publishing his first Perry Mason story in 1933. #HistoryGetsLIT