Settled Out Of Court
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
What happens when the law becomes a game played by those who know all its loopholes? Settled out of Court by Henry Cecil is a wickedly comic legal thriller set in mid-20th century Britain, following a cast of morally ambiguous characters who find themselves entangled in a web of courtroom manoeuvrings, private settlements, and gentlemanly deception. At its centre is a cunning plot in which a convicted man, released from prison, sets out to blackmail those whose perjury put him behind bars — only to find that justice, in Cecil's world, is a far more slippery and entertaining beast than any rulebook could contain. Cecil, himself a practising barrister and County Court judge writing under a pen name, brings an insider's razor-sharp wit to a narrative that is as legally astute as it is gloriously absurd. His prose is brisk, urbane, and laced with the kind of dry English humour that made Brothers in Law a beloved classic, and Settled out of Court upholds that distinguished tradition with equal panache. A master of the comic legal novel, Cecil illustrates how the machinery of British justice can be at once magnificent and magnificently ridiculous — leaving the reader to wonder whether the courtroom or the conscience is the true seat of judgement.
Author: Henry Cecil
Format: Hardback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
What happens when the law becomes a game played by those who know all its loopholes? Settled out of Court by Henry Cecil is a wickedly comic legal thriller set in mid-20th century Britain, following a cast of morally ambiguous characters who find themselves entangled in a web of courtroom manoeuvrings, private settlements, and gentlemanly deception. At its centre is a cunning plot in which a convicted man, released from prison, sets out to blackmail those whose perjury put him behind bars — only to find that justice, in Cecil's world, is a far more slippery and entertaining beast than any rulebook could contain. Cecil, himself a practising barrister and County Court judge writing under a pen name, brings an insider's razor-sharp wit to a narrative that is as legally astute as it is gloriously absurd. His prose is brisk, urbane, and laced with the kind of dry English humour that made Brothers in Law a beloved classic, and Settled out of Court upholds that distinguished tradition with equal panache. A master of the comic legal novel, Cecil illustrates how the machinery of British justice can be at once magnificent and magnificently ridiculous — leaving the reader to wonder whether the courtroom or the conscience is the true seat of judgement.