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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819065003321

Titolo

Justice denoted : the legal thriller in American, British, and continental courtroom literature / / compiled and edited by Terry White ; foreword by Michael A. Kahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2003

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-67528-7

1-280-63757-9

9786610637577

0-313-05257-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 560 pages)

Collana

Bibliographies and indexes in popular culture, , 1066-0658 ; ; no. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

WhiteTerry (Terrance)

Disciplina

016.80883/9355

Soggetti

Legal stories

Legal stories - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Epigraphs; Foreword: Legal Thrillers: True Facts versus True Fiction; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Legal Thriller and the Modern Courtroom Drama; Legal Thrillers: A to Z Bibliography; Supplemental Bibliography; References and Recommended Reading; Appendix 1: Lawyers' Lexicon; Appendix 2: Series Characters; Appendix 3: Craft Notes; Title Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important.