Murder on Trial - Softcover

Gardner, Erle Stanley; Mortimer, John; Ritchie, Jack; Doyle, Arthur Conan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451177215 ISBN 13: 9780451177216

Publisher: Signet, 1994

Synopsis

Murderers, victims, attorneys, and judges come together in a collection of fourteen short stories, including the works of John Mortimer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Block, Erle Stanley Gardner, and others. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0451177215
• ISBN 13: 9780451177216
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Manson Cynthia