You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I had heard of this novel most of my life, and I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about back in its day. Well I will say for a book written in the 1950's this was a topic I did not expect to be, and then I found out it was a very popular book and made into a movie. Go ahead name your fave courtroom dramas: To Kill a Mockingbird, Compulsion, The Verdict; oh there's too many good ones to name! The combined waiting room and place where Maida did her typing—the old dining room—looked more like the reception room of, not a club, but a comfortably old and rather down-at-the-heel fraternal lodge.

Even though I’m all for swift justice, even I believe that the accused must get a fair hearing before the classroom tribunal before being socially ostracized. Although the writing is not up to the standards of, say, Dickens, it is OK, and the thing is coherent in a way that most are not. It was a warm moonlit Sunday night in mid-August and I was arriving home from a long weekend of trout fishing in the Oxbow Lake district with my old hermit friend Danny McGinnis, who lives there all year round.Based on a true murder that occurred in Big Bay, Michigan in 1952, this novel is considered a classic in the legal thriller genre and was made into an iconic Academy Award-nominated movie in 1959 (7 nominations) starring James Stewart, Lee Remick and George C. One thing I like is when a book hooks me quickly and this book did just that, after a few minutes I found myself looking for opportunities to listen. It looks so simple at the beginning: When his wife Laura woke him up and to tell him she had been beaten and raped, Army Lieutenant Frederick Manion picked up his loaded Luger went out and shot the man she said did it, bartender Barney Quill. Nothing dramatic happens in the course of the novel - the violence happens off stage before the first chapter - but I couldn’t stop listening until it was done. Written by a former prosecuting attorney who knew the ins and outs of the courtroom as well as the law, it was not only riveting, but enjoyable as well.

No spoilers here, of course; but there is an ingenious thought-provoking twist that will have you pondering long after you know the verdict of the jury. Este libro se desarrolla completamente en el tema del proceso legal y juicio de un hombre que ha sido acusado de asesinato en primer grado, el libro comienza donde el abogado defensor recibe a la esposa del inculpado para contratarlo.I stood looking up over the Miners' State Bank as the big waning yellow moon swam out from behind a jagged dark cliff of cloud. By the time her husband, one Lieutenant Frederic Manion of the US Army, realizes what has transpired, the rapist has fled for the safety of the local bar. Robert Traver is the pseudonym of John Donaldson Voelker who served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Marquette County, Michigan and later as the 74th Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. For with one of those swift premonitions one cannot define I knew it was for me; it would be, I was sure, my invitation to the waltz--my bid to accept the retainer in Iron Cliffs County's latest murder. El inculpado, además de haberle metido 5 balas a otro hombre delante de muchas personas, se entregó a la policía una vez asesinado al otro hombre, así que como verán la defensa no tiene, en apariencia, mucho de donde agarrarse para lograr un veredicto a favor.