Murder Picks the Jury - A Classic Courtroom Mystery of Corruption and Revenge
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A disgraced former prosecutor takes on an apparently hopeless murder case-and discovers that an entire city may be more dangerous than the accused man standing trial.
Randolph Lee was once a brilliant young prosecutor, but disgrace and despair have reduced him to a vagrant locked in the Vale City jail. He blames the corrupt and uncaring city for the death of the only man who remained loyal to him, and he is determined to make it answer for what it has done. An unexpected escape gives Lee his freedom and brings him into contact with Susan Drake, whose father desperately needs a defense attorney.
Gregory Drake, a wealthy philanthropist and reformer, has been accused of strangling Maysie Grey. Three witnesses insist that no one else could have been present when she was murdered, and even Lee initially suspects that his client may be guilty. But as two more killings follow and the evidence begins to shift, Lee realizes that the case conceals a larger and far more dangerous conspiracy. To save Drake-and himself-he must expose the killer before the next murder closes the case permanently.
First published in 1947, Murder Picks the Jury combines a courtroom drama with hardboiled crime, political corruption, murder, and personal revenge. Harrison Hunt was the collective pseudonym used by W. T. Ballard and Norbert Davis for this collaboration. Their novel delivers a damaged but determined hero, a seemingly impossible case, rapid reversals, and a city whose institutions may be as guilty as any individual criminal.
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