The DA Goes to Trial Author:Erle Stanley Gardner CAN A DEAD MAN KILL? — Here is one of the swiftest and most baffling cases in the career of Doug Selby, Erle Stanley Gardner's famous young district attorney. He is faced with the mystery of a battered body found under a railroad trestle, and with a deadly game of politics with himself as the goat. Murder is complicated by a telegram from a man w... more »ho wasn't there, a vanishing bookkeeper, and a dead man's fingerprints which had to be where they weren't, and couldn't be where they were.
With the help of Sylvia Martin, a lovely young reporter with a nose for news and an eye for Doug, he unfolds a plot which leads to an exciting chase from the hills of California to the deserts of Arizona, and which enables him to outflank another beautiful girl who fought him because she couldn't have him.« less