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The tension of the crowded courtroom, jaded DAs and surprise witnesses, stunning defenses and divided juries -- all manner of legal twists and dramatic turns fill the pages in this anthology of legal thrillers featuring writers like Graham Greene, Mark Leyner, and Irwin Shaw, who in past decades have defined this popular genre, as well as those redefining it today. Andrew Vachss, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Joe R. Lansdale, Carolyn Wheat, Ian Creasey, Michael Mallory, and other established talents in the crime and mystery fields offer gripping, masterful tales that explore the complex and unpredictable world of the judicial system.
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Kirkus Review
The latest offering in the Mammoth seriesnow 53 titles and countingis this collection of 39 stories that challenge, with variable success, the bromide that you need a novel to unfold a courtroom drama properly. Among the experts submitting exhibits (half from 195599, half brand-new) in support of editor Hemmingson ( The Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels , 2000) are Louis Auchincloss, Madison Smartt Bell, Mat Coward, Martin Edwards, Erle Stanley Gardner, Graham Greene, John Lutz, James Powell, Irwin Shaw, Henry Slesar, and Carolyn Wheat. No word yet whether the excerpts from novels by James Grippando, John Grisham, and Scott Turow should be allowed in evidence.