The DA goes to TRIAL Author:Erle Stanley Gardner Doug Selby is a fictional creation of Erle Stanley Gardner. He appears in nine books. Douglas Selby started his literary life as the newly elected District Attorney (D.A.) in the fictional Madison City, California. — District Attorney Doug Selby "is faced with the mystery of a battered body found under a railroad trestle, and with a deadly game ... more »of politics with himself as the goat.”
This series is interesting in that it is an inversion of the motif of the Perry Mason novels, with prosecutor Selby being portrayed as the courageous and imaginative crime solver and his perennial antagonist A.B. Carr being a wily shyster whose clients are always "as guilty as hell".« less