Law's Strangest Cases
Published on 12. February 2016
256 pages
978-1-911042-31-0 (ISBN)
Description
A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history - you'll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Meet the only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of law, the doctor with the worst bedside manner of all time, the murderess who collected money from her mummified victim for 21 years, and explore one of the most indigestible dilemmas - if you'd been shipwrecked 2,000 miles from home, would you have eaten Parker the cabin boy? The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true.
Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of legal eagles, this book is the perfect gift for lawyers, armchair detectives and true crime afficionados everywhere.
Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of legal eagles, this book is the perfect gift for lawyers, armchair detectives and true crime afficionados everywhere.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911042-31-0 (9781911042310)
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Peter Seddon
Law's Strangest Cases
Extraordinary but True Tales from Over Five Centuries of Legal History
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Strangest Case of All Time? (c.AD 33)
- Lady Marion's Ordeal (1207)
- A Champion's Unseemly End (1220)
- So Whose Ox is it, Anyway? (1292)
- The Accused Have Gone to Ground (1519)
- An Imaginative Confession (1590)
- A Delayed Decision (1613)
- Jury v. Bench (1670)
- A Touch of the Blarney (1671)
- Well, I'll Be Hanged! (1705)
- Morrison Hears it all (1721)
- Maggie's Reprieve (1724)
- And the Winner Is . (1746)
- A Fish out of Water (1776)
- A Unique Assassination (1812)
- Eleven Just Men and Wilson (1838)
- A New Line of Enquiry (1845)
- No, No, No, No, No . Yes (1853)
- The Eleventh Witness (1855)
- Bar Talk (1860)
- Sweet Fanny Adams (1867)
- The Voice of Conscience (1869)
- Man's Best Friend? (1883)
- There's Always Parker (1884)
- Three-Times-Lucky Lee (1885)
- A Shocking Affair (1890)
- A Unique Discovery (1892)
- In The Footsteps of Sweeney Todd (1897)
- A Theatrical Performance (1898)
- Elementary, My Dear Holmes! (1903)
- A Man Ahead of his Time (1905)
- Murder by Request (1919)
- Once Pickled, Forever Toasted (1928)
- A Clerical Error (1932)
- A Self-Inflicted Wound (1933)
- Death of a Sweet Old Lady (1944)
- A Dose of Ill Fortune (1947)
- Capstick Makes an Impression (1948)
- A Suspended Suspended Sentence (1948)
- Let's Hear it for Parliament (1960)
- Trial of a Lady (1960)
- A Very Quiet Tenant (1960)
- A Moving Experience (1970)
- Careers Advice (1971)
- A Question of Entry (1971)
- A Sound (Asleep) Verdict (1971)
- What A Difference A Day Makes (1972)
- An Uncommonly Violent Protest (1972)
- A Fruitless Wait (1974)
- The Truth, Partly the Truth and Everything but the Truth (1975)
- A Note of Caution (1978)
- A Picture Paints A Thousand Words (1980)
- A Proper Charlie (1981)
- Eight Out of Ten Cats Prefer Hilda (1982)
- One Case Too Many (1983)
- Innocent of an Impossible Crime (1985)
- It's Uncle Norris! (1986)
- Not so Dumb Witness (1987)
- The Icing on the Cake (1988)
- The Most Desperate Appeal Ever (1988)
- Dumb Witness (1989)
- The Shocking Affair of the Rolled Umbrella (1990)
- An Unexpected Stretch (1992)
- A Knife-And-Fork Job (1992)
- The Accused is Free to Crow (1992)
- A Symbolic Crime (1992)
- Caught in the Act (1992)
- A Comedy of Errors (1998)
- Silence in Court (1999)
- Trust Me, I'm a Doctor (1999)
- The Scales of Justice (2000)
- Call Brendan Michael Forrester (2001)
- A Chancy Conviction (2003)
- In God We Trust (2005)
- The Missing Pants (2007)
- A Labyrinthine Case (2008)
- Youth v. Experience (2012)
- The Law is All A-Twitter (2016)
- Selected Bibliography
- Copyright
