Anatomy of a Murder

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As my car turned the corner the headlights swept the rows of tall drooping elms planted by my father when he was a young man—much younger than I—and gleamed bluely on the darkened windows. It's a pitched battle, this trial, a bare-knuckle no-holds-barred brawl in which just about anything goes as long as you word it right.

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).The climax is the trial itself, so vividly portrayed that we feel we are actually present as we follow the cunning and ruthless prosecutor and get top know the calm and wise Judge Weaver. You sort of fall into the actual story and it takes a while to figure out that the trout story is no longer that of the author but that the story has actually begun. Todo el libro estamos inmersos en el ir y venir y la genialidad, tanto del abogado defensor, como de un ayudante del fiscal en el juicio, la presentación de pruebas, la interrogación de los diferentes testigos de cargo y a favor, las declaraciones finales de ambos abogados y en medio de todo eso, la investigación legal y personal que se tiene que hacer por parte de la defensa para presentar su caso. The defendant’s wife, Laura, was raped by the local innkeeper and the defendant, army lieutenant Frederic Manion, took a gun, went to the bar, and shot and killed the rapist. As a text book it becomes laboured and dull as DA Paul Biegler and his newly-sober mentor Parnell quote huge chunks of legal cases and precedents at each other.

The trial remains an interesting mystery throughout, as there proves to be more to the story than a hotel owner deciding to attack Mrs.

It was funny, the fine suave marshmallow phrases a lawyer learned to spin to let a prospective client gently know he must be prepared to fork over some heavy dough. Because Jimmy Stewart plays our hero in the movie, there may be little doubt going in as to how the case will turn out – but it's not that simple. 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. I'll have to look for the movie, as Jimmy Stewart won an Oscar for his portrayal of Paul Biegler, and he was always a favorite actor of mine. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

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.My only complaint is there was a bit of swearing, and I felt I needed to keep my headphones on so others would not hear, not as much as a Scott Turrow but more than a Grisham. There was an old black leather rocking-chair and an even older brown leather davenport to accommodate the overflow. 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.