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
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Historical Legal ThrillersThe 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
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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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John Mortimer, Frances Fyfield, Tim Vicary and M.R. HallBibliography; 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)
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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)