Marshall Houts

Marshall Wilson Houts (June 28, 1919 – November 24, 1993) was an American academic, attorney, and author.

Biography Houts was born June 28, 1919, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, He relocated to Los Angeles in 1951, where he worked as a counsel to author Erle Stanley Gardner’s Court of Last Resort, investigating over 600 murder cases and helping win freedom for 41 wrongly convicted people. In 1959, he created Trauma magazine, a medical journal used by emergency room physicians, which he continued to edit and publish for the remained of his life.

Earl Stanley Gardner dedicated his 63rd Perry Mason book, The Case of the Shapely Shadow, to Houts for the "outstanding work he is doing in the field of legal medicine."

Death Houts died in Laguna Niguel, California on November 24, 1993. Where Death Delights (1967) Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes? (1976) Eisenhower: Turning the World Toward Peace (1990; co-written with Harold Stassen)