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White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse--deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason. The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' "Anatomy of a Murder" as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, "bete-noire" of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.
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这部作品简直让人拍案叫绝，作者的笔触细腻得如同描摹一件精美的瓷器，每一个情节的转折都恰到好处，仿佛是精心布局的棋局，每一步落下都蕴含着深意。我尤其欣赏他对人物内心世界的挖掘，那种复杂交织的情感，悲喜交加的瞬间，被刻画得入木三分，让人仿佛能亲身感受到角色的挣扎与成长。故事的节奏把握得极其老道，时而如溪流般潺潺细语，娓娓道来；时而又如疾风骤雨，让人屏息凝神，生怕错过任何一个关键的细节。读完之后，那种意犹未尽的感觉久久不能散去，仿佛完成了一次深刻的精神洗礼。它不仅仅是一个故事，更像是一面映照人性的镜子，让人在阅读的过程中不断反思自身的处境与选择。这本书的语言功底也值得称道，那些遣词造句，如同音符般和谐，读起来朗朗上口，却又不失深度与韵味。
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评分这本书给我的感觉，就像是在迷雾中驾驶，一开始方向感全无，但随着深入，地平线逐渐清晰，那种逐渐揭开真相的体验是无与伦比的。它的叙事氛围营造得极为成功，那种压抑、紧张，甚至带着一丝宿命感的基调，贯穿始终。作者的文字富有画面感，我仿佛能闻到空气中潮湿的气味，能感受到角色紧握拳头的力度。我特别喜欢其中关于道德困境的探讨，它迫使我站在不同的立场上去审视那些艰难的选择，没有简单的对错，只有沉重的后果。这种对人性的深刻剖析，使得这本书超越了一般的娱乐消遣，具有了某种哲学思辨的价值。它像一剂猛药，让人在阅读的痛苦中获得清醒。
评分我得承认，刚开始读的时候有些吃力，因为它涉及的背景知识和专业术语不少，需要我时不时停下来查阅资料，但这绝对是值得的投入。一旦沉浸其中，那种细致入微的场景描绘和逻辑推演能力就彻底抓住了我。作者似乎对细节有着近乎偏执的追求，每一个道具的摆放、每一次对话的语气变化，似乎都在为最终的结局埋下伏笔。最让我印象深刻的是其对“灰色地带”的描绘，没有绝对的好人或坏人，每个人物都有其存在的合理性与复杂性，他们的动机是多层次的，这使得整个故事的张力持续保持在高位。与其说是在读一个故事，不如说是在经历一场智力上的高强度训练。它对我的专注力也是一个极好的考验，要求你必须全神贯注，否则很容易跟不上那精密的线索网。
评分我向来偏爱那些能够在结尾处带来巨大冲击力的作品，而这一部绝对是佼佼者。它的铺陈极其缓慢，似乎在故意逗弄读者的耐心，但正是这种慢热，才为最后那石破天惊的转折做了最扎实的铺垫。那种从细枝末节中找到关键线索，最终实现完美闭环的感觉，简直令人心潮澎湃。作者对悬念的设置运用得出神入化，他深谙“展示”与“隐藏”的艺术，总是在你认为一切尽在掌握时，猛地拉开另一层帷幕。此外，书中对社会体制的反思，也处理得非常高明，不是空洞的口号，而是通过具体人物的命运来展现其内在的矛盾和缺陷。读完后，我需要很长一段时间来平复心情，整理那些被情节激起的复杂情绪，这是一次真正酣畅淋漓的阅读体验。
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