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Edward Phillips Oppenheim: the Evil Shepherd (Superb Classics Illustrated Edition)

Edward Phillips Oppenheim

出版	Independently Published, 2021-08-06
主題	Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
ISBN	9798451173718
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I8bZzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

the most hardened reader can hardly fail to receive a series of thrills. A former defense attorney turned righteous crusader is the hero of this blockbuster novel from an early master of the thriller genre.A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch, a cold-eyed fellow with a paper-thin alibi. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows, but he is saved by brilliant defense attorney Francis Ledsam, who uses every legal trick he knows to free his client. It is a defense to be proud of, but Ledsam's joy vanishes when Hilditch's wife informs him that her husband is guilty of crimes far more monstrous than murder.His faith in his career shaken, Ledsam vows never again to defend a guilty man. But when his newfound principles run up against the harsh reality of real-world justice, he finds himself trapped between his love for a beautiful woman and a powerful desire to do the right thing--no matter the cost.