The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham : See You in Court!

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- On Sources, Approach, and the Selection of Titles -- Other Palgrave/Macmillan Titles by Lars Ole Sauerberg -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: The Legal Thriller -- Bibliography -- 2: Law and Literature: Legal Thrillers -- Law and Literature -- Legal Thrillers: Short and Long Formats -- Law in Popular Culture: Legal Thriller and Courtroom Drama -- Critical Views: Print -- Critical Views: Screen (Film and Television) -- Some Observations on Genre Aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 3: The Beginnings of a Success Story: Pulp Magazines and Legal Thrillers -- The Early Period -- Historical Legal Thrillers -- The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner -- Three Cases -- The Case of the Velvet Claws -- The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife -- The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 4: American Post-Second World War Thrill and Ethics Trials -- Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny (1951) -- Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder (1958) -- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) -- Before the Crowding of the Courtroom -- Bibliography -- 5: Genteel Jurisprudence: The British Scene -- The Beginnings of the British Legal Thriller -- The Legal Background -- A Genre Getting into Its Stride -- John Mortimer, Frances Fyfield, Tim Vicary and M. R. Hall -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 6: See You in Court (1). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s -- American Law Characteristics -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 7: See You in Court (2). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s: The Women -- Lia Matera, Where Lawyers Fear to Tread: A Willa Jansson Mystery (1987). -- Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Mitigating Circumstances (1993) -- Barbara Parker, Suspicion of Innocence (1994) -- Kate Wilhelm, The Best Defense (1994) -- Carolyn Wheat, Fresh Kills (1995).

Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy (1996) -- Anne Tolstoi Wallach, Trials (1996) -- Linda McKeever Bullard, Shades of Justice (1998) -- Bonnie MacDougal, Out of Order (1999) -- Concluding Observations -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 8: See You in Court (3). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s: The Men -- Michael Nava, Goldenboy (1988) -- Steve Martini, The Judge (1995) -- Brad Meltzer, The Tenth Justice (1997) -- Dudley W. Buffa, The Defence (1998) -- Scott Turow, Personal Injuries (1999) -- Michael A. Kahn, Bearing Witness (2000) -- Christopher Darden and Dick Lochte, The Last Defense (2002) -- John Grisham, The Last Juror (2004) -- Concluding Observations -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 9: Conclusions: In and Beyond the Anglo-American Courts of Fact and Fiction -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Index.

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