The advent of Court TV and the increasing news coverage of high-profile trials have pushed legal proceedings to the forefront of public interest today. Jon L. Breen has answered a growing demand for information with a second edition of Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction, a critical bibliography of courtroom fiction. This new edition not only updates old annotations, but explores the literary response to new areas of focus and development that have emerged in the law since 1984. The original 421 entries have been ...
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The advent of Court TV and the increasing news coverage of high-profile trials have pushed legal proceedings to the forefront of public interest today. Jon L. Breen has answered a growing demand for information with a second edition of Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction, a critical bibliography of courtroom fiction. This new edition not only updates old annotations, but explores the literary response to new areas of focus and development that have emerged in the law since 1984. The original 421 entries have been retained among the 790 in the present volume, and Breen's guide also highlights a number of specialists who have recently emerged, including John Grisham, Steve Martini, William Bernhardt, Paul Levine, and Richard North Patterson. Annotations provide general information about the author and indicate the proportion of trial action included in each book. A critical bibliography for librarians, lawyers and courtroom enthusiasts alike, Novel Verdicts is a useful and easy-to-use reference tool that captures the changes in the law as depicted in courtroom fiction.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. Inscribed By the Author A critical bibliography of courtroom fiction, 266 pages. Spine heel very gently bumped. Inscribed on the front end paper "For Marvin Lachman, who has visited many of these same courtrooms. Jon L. Breen."
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Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean first edition, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! 266 very clean, unmarked and uncreased, suspense-filled and informative pages! Tan cloth with blue stamped lettering on the spine and front cover. "There are few human situations as inherently dramatic as a trial, whether criminal or civil. This fact has long been recgnized by journalists, novelists, short-story writers, and writers for the stage, screen, radio, and television. Works of legal fiction and drama have sometimes been in vogue and sometimes in relative eclipse, but they never disappear completely or lack for an eager audience. The best are often written either by lawyers or laypeople with extensive legal knowledge, but legal proceedings imagined by people with no idea of what goes on in court (except perhaps that gleaned from other legal fiction) can also be entertaining."-----from the Introduction.