Courts and Criminals - Softcover

Train, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438531451 ISBN 13: 9781438531458

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2009

Synopsis

Arthur Cheney Train (1875 - 1945) was an American lawyer and legal thriller writer. He was known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt. In 1901 he began working for the District Attorney's Office in New York. In 1904 he wrote his first short story. Besides writing novels Train also wrote advertising copy, vaudeville sketch comedy, poetry and journalism. Courts and Criminals is a series of essays written between 1905 and 1910. Essays in this collection include The Pleasant Fiction of the Presumption of Innocence, Preparing a Criminal Case for Trial, Sensationalism and Jury Trials, Why Do Men Kill?, Detectives and Others, Detectives Who Detect, Women in the Courts, Tricks of the Trade, What Fosters Crime, Insanity and the Law, and The Mala Vita in America.

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About the Author

Arthur Cheney Train (6 September 1875 - 22 December 1945) was an American lawyer and legal thriller writer, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr Ephraim Tutt. Train was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was politician and lawyer Charles Russell Train and his mother, Sara Maria Cheney. Train graduated BA from Harvard University in 1896 and LLB from Harvard Law School in 1899. In 1897, Train married Ethel Kissam and they had four children. Ethel died in 1923 and Train married Helen Coster Gerard with whom he had one child. In January 1901, Train became assistant in the office of the New York District Attorney and in 1904 he started his literary career with the publication of the short story The Maximilian Diamond in Leslie's Monthly. He spent the next decade running the two careers in parallel. From 1915 to 1922, Train was in private practice as a lawyer with Charles Albert Perkins while continuing to write, not just novels but advertising copy, vaudeville sketch comedy, poetry and journalism. In 1919, he created the popular character of Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wiley old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's injustices. He also coauthored two science fiction novels with eminent physicist Robert W. Wood. After 1922, Train devoted himself to writing. This book of Train's is published by Magic Lamp Press, who also publish the Peter Sharp Legal Mystery Series, all available on Amazon.com through the main website at www.legalmystery.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1438531451
• ISBN 13: 9781438531458
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 180