Short Story Anthologies, Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, Crimes - Fiction, Other Mystery Categories
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Overview
The field of law is a high-crime neighborhood. Attorneys and clients, judges and prosecutors, witnesses and victims all meet in this perfect locale for outstanding mystery fiction. Now, subpoenaed from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - with the sole motive of entertaining you - are tales brimming with courtroom drama. John Mortimer's bluff barrister turns his prodigious wit to applying psychology to sway the jury - and his unsuspecting law partners - in "Rumpole and the Female of the Species." In Henry Slesar's "Hanged for Sheep," a lawyer makes a shocking deal with a serial killer in a quest for personal justice. Lies, fear, and powerful emotions emerge on the witness stand when a child's accusations will either ruin an upstanding citizen or unmask a molester in John F. Suter's "Your Word Against Mine." And Lawrence Block, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Cornell Woolrich prove just how slippery cases involving money, love and justice can be in - Murder On TrialHere are 14 courtroom mysteries by the masters of detection: Lawrence Block, Erle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Mortimer, and more. In each of these stories, most of the action takes place in the courtroom--but justice doesn't always prevail.
Book Details
Published
September 29, 1994
Publisher
New York : Signet, c1994.
Pages
256
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780451177216