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Ten thousand a-year
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Ten thousand a year
Ten thousand a year
This is Warren's revision of the novel in preparation for Blackwood's edition, 1841. Vol. 1 autograph manuscript of Parts VII-XIII, XIX-XXI with 5 loose leaves of autograph memoranda and drafts for Part I. Vols. 2-4 contain printed leaves with autograph annotations and revisions. The printed leaves were cut from Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine (1839-1841) vols. 9-13, and tipped into these volumes.…
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Putting Lipstick on a Pig
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Salvation Boulevard
Some cases test a private investigator's wits, others test his courage, and still others, his character. In Salvation Boulevard, P.I. Carl Van Wagener has found a case that tests them all, and then goes on to test his soul. A professor is dead and a suspect-who has confessed-is in custody. But nothing is what it seems. After all, the dead man is an atheist professor, the accused an Islamic…
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The Woman in Black
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The Devil's advocate
When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton & Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired--money, a chauffeur-driven limo, and a stunning home in a high-rise. Then Milton assigns Kevin one of the most notorious cases of the year, with a file that had been put together prior to the crime. Throwing himself into his…
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A Hallowed Place
Beneath the calm exterior of the elite barristers' chambers at 5 Caper Court rumour and uncertainty begin to take their toll. Cameron Renshaw, the head of chambers, is dying, and Leo Davis, the QC with the charmed but amoral life, is about to find his dubious past catching up with him.
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Daisy Kenyon
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Patrick Butler for the defense
Patrick Butler for the Defence, first published in 1956, is a detective story by American writer John Dickson Carr, which features Carr's series detective Patrick Butler (who previously appeared in Below Suspicion).[1]: 5 This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
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James Vaughan and Hugh Prentice are the two junior partners of the law practice of Prentice, Prentice &…
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A chain of evidence
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Law in Literature
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Daddy's Girl
Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class and secretly feels like Faculty Comic Relief. She loves her family, too, but as a bookworm, doesn't quite fit into the cult of Greco football, headed by her father, the team captain. The one person she feels most connected to is her colleague, Angus Holt, a guy with a brilliant…
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Guilty of Nothing
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Diary of a yuppie
Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, Bob Service, a thirty-two year-old New York lawyer whose morals are tempered by expediency, tramples his associates and cripples his marriage.
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Defending Billy Ryan
Twelve years ago Jerry Kennedy delivered his first report, Kennedy for the Defense, on being the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston, as Mack, his then-wife, called him. Seven years ago, Jerry called in again, with Penance for Jerry Kennedy. After that, things only got worse. Much worse. But in this latest dispatch, we learn that Jerry is digging himself out of a big hole, defending Billy…
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The house of the prophet
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Miracle Creek
"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine-- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. When the Miracle Submarine mysteriously…
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Death Divided
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