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Laughing Whitefish is an engrossing trail drama of ethnic hostility and the legal defense of Indian treaties. Young Lawyer William (Willy) Poe puts out a shingle in Marquette, Michigan, in 1873, hoping to meet a woman who will take him seriously. His first client, the alluring Charlotte Kawbawgam, known as Laughing Whitefish, offers an enticing challenge—a compelling case of injustice at the hands of powerful mining interests. Years earlier, Charlotte''s father led the Jackson Mining Company to a lucrative iron ore strike, and he was then granted a small share in the mine, which the new owners refuse to honor. Willy is now Charlotte''s sole recourse for justice. Laughing Whitefish is a gripping account of barriers between Indian people and their legal rights. These poignant conflicts are delicately wrought by the pre-eminent master of the trial thriller, the best-selling author of Anatomy of a Murder. This new edition includes a foreword by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University, that contextualizes the novel and actual decisions of the Michigan Supreme Court ruling in favor of Charlotte.

Un hombre que ha matado a tiros al agresor de su esposa, la hermosa y provocativa Laura Manion, es detenido y acusado de asesinato en primer grado. La acción se desarrolla en un juzgado en una pequeña ciudad del Medio Oeste norteamericano, y los actores son los fiscales, los abogados defensores, el juez, el acusado, y el jurado, el cual decidirá el destino de un hombre. Pero los detalles del crimen y las historias personales de los implicados son secundarios, ya que el drama del juicio criminal revela las complejas cuestiones morales conlleva y que son expuestos hasta su misma esencia y la pregunta más difícil de contestar es: ¿hasta dónde es capaz de llegar un hombre para convencer a sus semejantes de que es inocente de asesinato? ¿Y cuánto será usted capaz de arriesgar para ayudarle? Anatomía de un asesinato es la novela número uno en ventas de Robert Traver, el thriller de juicios original americano, que allanó el camino para un género completo de ficción y en la que se basó la película clásica nominada al oscar del director Otto Preminger y que protagonizó James Stewart. Es al mismo tiempo la historia del más sensacional de los procesos judiciales estadounidenses: el asesinato.

Célèbre magistrat et auteur de romans policiers à succès sous le pseudonyme de Robert Traver (on lui doit le phénoménal Autopsie d''un meurtre), John D. Voelker fut avant tout un pêcheur à la mouche passionné qui maniait avec un même bonheur l''écriture et la canne en bambou. Après le succès d''Itinéraire d''un pêcheur à la mouche, livre culte outre-Atlantique, Voelker nous offre une nouvelle collection de récits à la fois tendres et hilarants, burlesques et philosophiques. Ode à la nature et réflexion sur l''art contemplatif de la pêche à la mouche, ce Testament dresse le portrait nostalgique d''une Amérique disparue. Dans la famille des écrivains-pêcheurs américains, John D. Voelker occupe une place à part. Ce livre au charme enivrant est une nouvelle preuve éclatante de son talent.

Pour des millions de lecteurs, le nom de Robert Traver reste attaché au phénoménal succès de son roman "Autopsie d''un meurtre". Peu savent que ce pseudonyme est celui d''un célèbre magistrat qui passait le plus clair de son temps à pêcher la truite sur les lacs et rivières du Michigan. Avec Itinéraire d''un pêcheur à la mouche, l''auteur nous offre un recueil d''aventures drôles et extravagantes. Livre culte outre-Atlantique, ce formidable éloge de la nature et de l''amitié est aussi une réflexion profonde sur l''art contemplatif de la pêche à la mouche. Traduit en français pour la première fois, il s''inscrit, avec "Et au milieu coule une rivière" de Norman Maclean, dans la lignée des grands classiques américains sur la nature.

No one wrote with more warm, down-home affection for fly fishing than the late Robert Traver, the author of "Anatomy of a Murder". This book is a marvelous catch of wit, wisdom, and anecdote sure to delight everyone who enjoys a master storyteller at work.

There''s enough trout magic to rub off on every reader--man, woman, or child.

Robert Traver captures the genuine flavor of backwoods life in this story recounting the escapades of Danny and his four croonies. Reaffirming the wonder and glory of individual rights, Robert Traver''s Hungry Hollow tales recount the mischievous escapades of Danny and his "boys." Setting themselves up in a logging shack near the iron-mining town of Chippewa in Michigan''s Upper Peninsula, Danny and his cronies spend their time fishing and hunting, story-telling, moonshining, and rampaging through the Chippewa saloons and the local "hotel." Traver has caught the genuine flavor of backwoods life. Beyond the diverse schemes and pranks, he masterfully portrays a group of men who live as they do because they choose to. Although written as fiction, Danny and the Boys is true Americana.

From the master author who set the standard for thrilling courtroom drama with the bestselling classic Anatomy of a Murder, another stylish courtroom novel. Laughing Whitefish is a tragic love story based on a 19th-century Indian land case that ended up in the Michigan Supreme Court.

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Frederic Ludlow and his wise-cracking partner Jeremiah Dundee take up the defense of a young man implicated in the murder of his lover, a beautiful mining heiress.

After many years, Walt Dressler, small town lawyer and ex-D.A., is contacted by his rich, brilliant, college roommate, Emil Hornstein, who wants him to run for state senator. Dressler is an idealist much concerned with the political and social cancer of his time, the moral corruption of the individual. This idealism leads him into a grueling campaign and also leads him back to the old St. Lorraine House, now the property of the beautiful Lousia Montgolfier, of the sad eyes. His battle with the most powerful newspaper in the state, and with the political columnist who is determined to destroy him, brings into sharp focus the individual responsibility of each person and dramatizes the battle of the forces of good and evil.