Puss In Boots - Matthew Hope, Book #7 Author:Ed McBain This is the 7th Matthew Hope, attorney, novel. For Matthew Hope, the months since he'd decided to switch to criminal law had hardly been a vote of confidence. He'd lost his first case, refused his second. So when Carlton Markham said he was innocent, Hope took the case. But as he dug deeper into the evidence the cops had amassed, it soon became ... more »clear that it would take more than claims of innocence to spring his client.« less