band gray colored cloth over boards with silver and gilt illustrations and gilt text on spine; no defects. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In a small-town tale set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1950s, middle-aged ex-DA Paul Biegler must turn his hand to becoming a defence counsel to fund his passion for fishing.

While there are many books fashioned around the law, Robert Traver shows us how the law itself—the charges, defenses, and rules of evidence—is the true arbiter of the story that unfolds. The Michigan supreme court reports and all my other law books stood on narrow shelves against an entire wall, completely hidden by drawn monk-cloth drapes—largely, I suspect, because it made me nervous to contemplate so many religiously unread books. My heart will always ble-e-e-e-e-d for you," the juke box wailed, "out of my crying ne-e-e-,e-d for you .The head-to-head expert witnesses, the careful manipulation of the witnesses and the jury, the role of the judge and the use and formation of precedent – so that's what draws some people to the law. Especially as the defence Lawyer, Paul Biegler, expresses his thoughts while talking to witnesses or questioning them in Court. Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. Because Jimmy Stewart plays our hero in the movie, there may be little doubt going in as to how the case will turn out – but it's not that simple.

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.Coleman Peterson, who was accused of the murder of Mike Chenoweth, owner of the Lumberjack Tavern in Big Bay. The investigation is not a whodunnit , obviously, it was looking at all the players in the story, finding out all the ins and outs, who knew what when, what the people involved were like. May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text.

This is the kind of entertainment that is difficult to come by - enjoyable while raising the standard of expectations. It takes the reader through the entire process of a murder trial, seen through the eyes of the defense attorney. The fine — and some not so fine — points of legal procedures annotate this overlong brief, put it in the fancier's rather than the literary classification. There was an old black leather rocking-chair and an even older brown leather davenport to accommodate the overflow. I'm not sorry I read this book, but count ANATOMY OF A MURDER on my small list of books that were made into better movies.A (Dutton, 1954), this transfers its technicalities to a fiction treatment of a murder and its trial, locating these doings on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where a long experienced prosecuting D.