Book Review: THE CASE OF THE SCREAMING WOMAN (1957) by Erle Stanley Gardner

As an avid reader of Golden Age murder mysteries, I have certainly seen my share of red herrings in print. These are the clues &ndash; the references, the hints, even the omissions &ndash; that an author might provide to send the reader up the proverbial garden path and well away from the true solution. Red herrings often rely on the reader to draw a false connection from cleverly inferred but…