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February 2003
Compiled by Vicki Nesting, of St. Charles Parish East Regional Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction (Bibliography) by Jon L. Breen, Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999.

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

The Best of Rumpole by John Clifford Mortimer.

Brief Tales from the Bench and Portrait of a Judge and Other Stories by Henry Cecil.

Fiction Goes to Court, ed. Albert P. Blausteun, Henry Holt and Company 1954.

Great Law & Order Stories, Selected and introduced by John Mortimer, creator of Rumpole of the Bailey. Includes courtroom dramas. Norton, 1990.

The Judge's Chambers and Other Stories by Lowell B. Komie, Academy Chicago Publishers 1987.

Legal Briefs: Stories By Today's Best Legal Thriller Writers, ed. Wm. Bernhardt, New York Doubleday 1998.

Legal Fiction by Bob Huffman, Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1999.

Legal Fictions: Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law by Jay Wishingrad.

The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, editor Michael Hemmingson.

Masterpieces of Legal Fiction, ed. Maximilian Koessler, Lawyers Co-operative. Rochester.1964.

Murder on Trial: Courtroom Mysteries From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994.

Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories edited by Fred R. Shapiro and Jane Garry, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Women Before the Bench ed. by Carolyn Wheat, New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2001.

There are also some Perry Mason shorts that have been collected in volumes of Erle Stanley Gardner.

INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORY

"Naboth's Vineyard," the last story in the original edition of Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries by Melville Davisson Post (other editions print the stories in different order). The book as a whole is available online at: http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200911.txt

 
 
      
   
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