Research Catalog

Title

Mystery Writers of America presents the prosecution rests : new stories about courtrooms, criminals, and the law / edited by Linda Fairstein.

Publication

New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Fairstein, Linda A.

Description

ix, 418 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Presents twenty-two stories that explore the world of the courtroom, from rural courthouses to the most influential judges, and the families hoping for justice.

Alternative Title

Prosecution rests

Subject

Legal stories, American

Genre/Form

• Legal fiction (Literature)
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Mystery fiction
• Romans judiciaires.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The prosecution rests: an introduction -- The secret session / by Edward D. Hoch -- Designer justice / by Phyllis Cohen -- Follow up / by Jo Dereske -- By hook or by crook / by Charlie Drees -- The letter / by Eileen Dunbaugh -- Spectral evidence / by Kate Gallison -- Knife fight / by Joel Goldman -- Death, cheated / by James Grippando -- My brother's keeper / by Daniel J. Hale -- The flashlight game / by Diana Hansen-Young -- Mom is my co-counsel / by Paul Levine -- Quality of mercy / by Leigh Lundin -- The mother / by Michele Martinez -- Red dog / by Anita Page -- A clerk's life / by Barbara Parker -- Time will tell / by Twist Phelan -- The evil we do / by John Walter Putre -- Night court / by S. J. Rozan -- Hard blows / by Morley Swingle -- Custom sets / by Joseph Wallace -- Bang / by Angela Zeman -- Going under / by Linda Fairstein.

ISBN

• 9780316012522 (hc.)
• 0316012521 (hc.)
• 9780316012676 (trade pbk.)
• 031601267X (trade pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008045351

OCLC

• 263498222
• SCSB-11795915

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library