Note that the publisher even issued a later paperback edition with a movie-poster reproduction as its cover. The author knows what he is writing about, but the dialogue tends towards the style of a mini-lecture at times. Intriguingly, the novel was based on a true story; moreover, the author was a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice (John D Voelker writing as Robert Traver).

I find it especially interesting because the story was inspired by an actual case handled by the author in his other life as a criminal defense lawyer. Anatomy is thus a philosophical novel, and I for one found the musing just as provocative as any nonfiction read. I swung over on Hematite Street to look at my mother's house--the same gaunt white frame house on the corner where I was born. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. A rarely used defence of ‘Irresistible Impulse’ (read as, not guilty by virtue of temporary insanity).Voelker, an avid fly fisherman and lifelong resident of the community where this novel is set, had a wit and intelligence that shined throughout these 450 pages and kept the story from bogging down.

Frederick Manion, charged with the multiple-witnessed cold-blooded murder of Barney Quill, whom he suspected of the violent rape of his wife, Laura Manion. Although the writing is not up to the standards of, say, Dickens, it is OK, and the thing is coherent in a way that most are not. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. A gripping tale of deceit, murder, and a sensational trial, Anatomy of a Murder is unmatched in the authenticity of its settings, events, and characters.The only drawback is that I couldn't help but hear the voices of the main actors from the Preminger film while reading, which is really distracting. Law is one of the last citadels of wavering conservatism in an untidy world and the offices of most lawyers reflect it.

I've never seen or read a better revelation of the nuts and bolts of the US trial system – the mechanics of getting people to say – on and off the stand – what you as either the defense or the prosecutor need them to say, without letting out details that tip things to the other side. Seconds later two police cars followed in hot pursuit, sirens away, the last one pausing long enough to pick up Jack, who leapt in like a boy.Because of some intriguing side stories about the murderer, his wife and the victim; because a rape preceded the murder; because the setting is integral to the plot, it was all in all a satisfying read. A pesar de que no leo muchos libros de este género, el thriller jurídico, no puedo negar que me fascina, por supuesto hablo de juicios relacionados con el proceso legal basado en el “common Law”, mientras que en mi país los juicios y la ley se basan en el derecho romano y por lo tanto los juicios son totalmente diferentes y para mí, mucho más complicados y aburridos, en Estados Unidos ese juego legal de juzgado, jurados, juez, abogado defensor y fiscal que se enzarzan en una lucha verbal y demás, me divierte enormemente, por supuesto me imagino que una vez metido en el sistema legal en la realidad en Estados Unidos resultará en algo diferente de lo que vemos en las películas y libros, pero mientras tanto, nos entrega libros realmente disfrutables dónde abogado defensor y fiscal se pelean en un juicio verbal y normalmente son tan divertidos e interesantes que siempre son bastante emocionantes.

In a small-town tale set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1950s, middle-aged ex-DA Paul Biegler must turn his hand to becoming a defence counsel to fund his passion for fishing. Basis for the excellent movie directed by Otto Preminger, who thrives in tense legal showdowns and this is perhaps his best, mostly for James Stewart's cagey performance as a deceptively wily small-town lawyer. For example, there was the time a kid farted really loudly during my lecture about gerunds, and there were a bunch of accusations and counter-accusations about who dealt it and who smelt it and who denied it and who supplied it.Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Problem is, while perfectly human and understandable, it was still murder, and Manny's been in jail ever since, trial pending. And it seems like it could be a tough sell: Laura is very frank (too frank) about Manny's jealousy, and however much empathy there can be for a man going after someone who raped his wife, within the strict letter of the law it simply was not justifiable homicide. I'm not sorry I read this book, but count ANATOMY OF A MURDER on my small list of books that were made into better movies. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the successful and now classic Otto Preminger film.