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"Dedication " -- "Preface" -- "On Sources, Approach, and the Selection of Titles" -- "Other Palgrave/Macmillan Titles by Lars Ole Sauerberg" -- "Contents" -- "1: Introduction: The Legal Thriller" -- "Bibliography" -- "2: Law and Literature: Legal Thrillers" -- "Law and Literature" -- "Legal Thrillers: Short and Long Formats" -- "Law in Popular Culture: Legal Thriller and Courtroom Drama" -- "Critical Views: Print" -- "Critical Views: Screen (Film and Television)" -- "Some Observations on Genre Aesthetics" -- "Bibliography" -- "Online Resources" -- "3: The Beginnings of a Success Story: Pulp Magazines and Legal Thrillers" -- "The Early Period" -- "Historical Legal Thrillers" -- "The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner" -- "Three Cases" -- "The Case of the Velvet Claws" -- "The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife" -- "The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister" -- "Bibliography" -- "Online Resources" -- "4: American Post-Second World War Thrill and Ethics Trials" -- "Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny (1951)" -- "Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder (1958)" -- "Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)" -- "Before the Crowding of the Courtroom" -- "Bibliography" -- "5: Genteel Jurisprudence: The British Scene" -- "The Beginnings of the British Legal Thriller" -- "The Legal Background" -- "A Genre Getting into Its Stride" -- "John Mortimer, Frances Fyfield, Tim Vicary and M. R. Hall" -- "Bibliography" -- "Online Resources" -- "6: See You in Court (1). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s" -- "American Law Characteristics" -- "Bibliography" -- "Online Resources" -- "7: See You in Court (2). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s: The Women" -- "Lia Matera, Where Lawyers Fear to Tread: A Willa Jansson Mystery (1987)." -- "Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Mitigating Circumstances (1993)" -- "Barbara Parker, Suspicion of Innocence (1994)". The Early Period -- Historical Legal Thrillers -- The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner -- Three Cases -- The Case of the Velvet Claws -- The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife -- The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 4: American Post-Second World War Thrill and Ethics Trials -- Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny (1951) -- Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder (1958) -- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) -- Before the Crowding of the Courtroom -- Bibliography -- 5: Genteel Jurisprudence: The British Scene -- The Beginnings of the British Legal Thriller The Legal Background -- A Genre Getting into Its Stride -- John Mortimer, Frances Fyfield, Tim Vicary and M. R. Hall -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 6: See You in Court (1). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s -- American Law Characteristics -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 7: See You in Court (2). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s: The Women -- Lia Matera, Where Lawyers Fear to Tread: A Willa Jansson Mystery (1987). -- Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Mitigating Circumstances (1993) -- Barbara Parker, Suspicion of Innocence (1994) Kate Wilhelm, The Best Defense (1994) -- Carolyn Wheat, Fresh Kills (1995) -- Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy (1996) -- Anne Tolstoi Wallach, Trials (1996) -- Linda McKeever Bullard, Shades of Justice (1998) -- Bonnie MacDougal, Out of Order (1999) -- Concluding Observations -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 8: See You in Court (3). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s: The Men -- Michael Nava, Goldenboy (1988) -- Steve Martini, The Judge (1995) -- Brad Meltzer, The Tenth Justice (1997) -- Dudley W. Buffa, The Defence (1998) -- Scott Turow, Personal Injuries (1999) Michael A. Kahn, Bearing Witness (2000) -- Christopher Darden and Dick Lochte, The Last Defense (2002) -- John Grisham, The Last Juror (2004) -- Concluding Observations -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 9: Conclusions: In and Beyond the Anglo-American Courts of Fact and Fiction -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Index
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