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  • No Bail For The Judge

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Series Book 1 - Colonel Brain
    A dour and highly-respected High Court Judge finds himself on trial for the murder of a prostitute. He has no recollection of the events leading up to the murder so believes he may be guilty. His daughter, however, is convinced of his innocence, so she enlists the help of a petty thief to help solve the complex mystery. ... Read more

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  • Alibi For A Judge

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Mr Justice Carstairs is a High Court Judge. He is completely incompetent and a chronic worrier to boot. This is perfectly illustrated when he sentences a man to ten years' imprisonment and then immediately doubts his verdict. Taking the unprecedented step of trying to overrule his own judgement he encounters resistance on all sides. Matters get really complicated when, in trying to prove the man's ... Read more

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  • Much In Evidence

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Series Book 2 - Mr. Tewkesbury
    William Richmond is bald and lame. But that is not his only misfortune. On the very night he has £100,000 in his safe, his home is broken into and he is beaten up. His insurance company pays up - but they are highly suspicious. It would appear that a series of bald and lame men have been making dubious insurance claims. In this hilarious trial novel we see how amazing coincidences can really ... Read more

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  • The Asking Price

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Ronald Holbrook is a fifty-seven year old bachelor who has lived in the same house for twenty years. Jane Doughty, the daughter of his next-door neighbours, is seventeen. She suddenly decides she is in love with Ronald and wants to marry him. Everyone is amused at first but then events take a disturbingly sinister turn and Ronald finds himself enmeshed in a potentially tragic situation. ... Read more

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  • Natural Causes

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Series Book 2 - Colonel Brain
    When megalomaniac proprietor of the Clarion Newspapers Ltd, Alexander Bean is humiliated in court by judge Mr Justice Beverly, he swears revenge. He engages the services of Sidney York to find a way to blackmail the judge. The situation gets out of hand when Sidney dies in a mysterious accident. The judge and his family fall under suspicion. Thus Alexander Bean becomes involved in a story that ... Read more

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  • Brief Tales From The Bench

    by Henry Cecil ...
    What does it feel like to be a Judge? Read these stories and you can almost feel you are looking at proceedings from the lofty position of the Bench. With a collection of eccentric and amusing characters, Henry Cecil brings to life the trials in a County Court and exposes the complex and often contradictory workings of the English legal system. ... Read more

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  • The South African War: 23 Essential Books

    Eyewitness Accounts of Commandos, Sieges, Hospitals, Camps, and Imperial Resistance

    by George Henry Makins, Arthur Edward Mainwaring, Cecil Francis Romer, Johanna Brandt, Ben J. Viljoen, Mainwaring George Jacson, Edward P. Lowry, William E. Sellers, Louis Eugène Du Moulin, J. D. Kestell, Beatrix Wickens Davey Lady Gatacre, William F.S.A. Scot. Baird, Frederick David Baillie, T. Phelan, C. H. Thomas, Francis William Reitz, F. S. Brereton, George Manville Fenn, E. C. Laurence, Louis Selmer, James F. J. Archibald ...
    The South African War: 23 Essential Books assembles a capacious documentary and literary record of the Anglo-Boer War, bringing military narrative into conversation with memoir, reportage, political reflection, travel writing, and personal testimony. Its range captures the conflict's shifting scales: battlefield operations, sieges and commando campaigns, imperial administration, civilian ... Read more

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  • Ways And Means

    by Henry Cecil ...
    When Basil Merridew and his 'nephew', Nicholas Drewe, arrive in the prosperous village of Tapworth Magna their neighbours are unprepared for the upheaval that is to follow. The new arrivals' short period of residence in the village ends when Basil takes out a slander action against twenty-two of his neighbours and pockets £10,000 as a settlement. This is just the first episode in a fascinating ... Read more

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    Alibi for a Judge & other plays

    Eight Full-Cast Vintage BBC Radio Dramatisations

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Narrated by Cecil Parker, Monica Grey, Norman Shelley, David Spenser, Naunton Wayne, Basil Dawson, Alan Barry, John Westbrook, Joan Matheson, Peter Sallis, Sarah Badel, Peter Howell, Paul Daneman, Peter Williams, Gerald Cross ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    Eight thrilling tales from the writer of Brothers in Law, featuring courtroom cases, legal wranglings, conspiracy and blackmailBarrister and county court judge, Henry Cecil wrote numerous comic stories set in the legal world, most famously Brothers in Law. Collected here are eight vintage dramas based on his works, beginning with an adaptation of his debut novel, The Painswick Line, a tale of a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Brief Tales from the Bench

    13 Full-Cast Vintage BBC Radio Courtroom Dramas

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Narrated by Andrew Cruickshank, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 17 min

    Thirteen dramatised courtroom tales of conflicting evidence, exasperating witnesses and slippery counsel, from the writer of Brothers in LawWhat does it feel like to be a Judge? Listen to these self-contained dramas and you can almost feel you are looking at proceedings from the lofty position of the Bench. With a collection of eccentric and amusing characters, Henry Cecil brings to life the ... Read more

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  • Brothers In Law

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Series Book 1 - Roger Thursby
    Roger Thursby, aged twenty-four, is called to the bar. He is young, inexperienced and his love life is complicated. He blunders his way through a succession of comic adventures including his calamitous debut at the bar. His career takes an upward turn when he is chosen to defend the caddish Alfred Greenat the Old Bailey. In this first Roger Thursby novel Henry Cecil satires the legal profession ... Read more

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  • Truth With Her Boots On

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Judge Julian Whitehall is a man of the highest moral integrity. He is approaching retirement age but still has a little time to serve. Suddenly, to the enormous surprise of everybody, he retires early. It transpires that an old friend has asked him to lie on his behalf. Deciding that loyalty to a friend is more important than loyalty to the public, he helps his friend but immediately resigns. The ... Read more

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