I surveyed the clutter of mail, mostly junk and routine stuff, that had accumulated during my absence. Then there’s the occasional (white)teacher saves (not white) student story, but those stories are kind of sappy and they’re not my style. P. (the upper peninsula of the state of Michigan, an area I know very well), and the judge has to warn the jury and the courtroom that if someone rapes your wife you can not take matters in your own hands and kill the rapist.

Paul Biegler agrees to defend him and must unravel a case in which the motivations of the murder, his wife, and the victim are all in question. For many years before they died he and Grandma used to live upstairs, and my combined law offices and bachelor's quarters now occupied their old parlor, sitting room and dining room. 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.In the end, Lieutenant Manion is the most enigmatic character, which is ironic since he’s the defendant and the impetus for everything.

So, as with some of his other books, this novel was developed based on true crime with which the author was familiar.The only drawback is that I couldn't help but hear the voices of the main actors from the Preminger film while reading, which is really distracting. So my mother Belle dwelt alone in her big empty house like a dowager queen, re-reading her Hardy and Dickens and fussing with her water colors and listening to endless soap operas.