"Gardner slept as little as three hours a night, instead staying at his typewriter until he had produced the 4,000-word daily target he set for himself. Gardner was a writing machine, a story industrialist... in recent years he'd hammered out millions of words and sold hundreds of stories."—Richard Rayner in his latest book, A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age (Doubleday).
(Twelfth in a series. Here's the whole danged thing so far. )
