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Here is the accused, Dr. John Adams, being tried for the murder of Mrs. Morell (after rumors connected with other ""mysterious"" deaths) six years previously (there were 16 other, earlier charges). Then come the nurses in attendance on Mrs. Morell, next the doctors in the hands of the prosecution. The defense takes over the cross-examination and, after the closing speeches, the Judge sums up -- to the verdict, known through news current at the time but still with its jolt of excitement. With a sensitivity for the expertness, the procedures, the surrounding, international gallery of reporters, the play of tactics from lure to pounce, the pervasive point of a medical man using his profession and skill to kill a victim -- this is courtroom drama that implants actual testimony, question and answer, to implement an overall finding that ""truth, in a court of law, is circumscribed and its Pursuit an elaborate rounding up and pinning down..."" The author, whose The Sudden View was a surprise Mexican visit and who found an appreciative audience with her novel A Legacy, will here show her readers that her talents are not balked by technicalities and that what she writes about mirrors an inner, analytical responsibility. Epicurean.
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Published in England in 1958 under title: The best we can do: an account of the trial of John Bodkin Adams.
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