Death of a Wannabe
Frank May practices law, but he's getting by doing only the safe, bland kind — writing wills, forming partnerships, processing papers. Everything far from the seedy adventures of criminal law. But a dead body wakes you up and takes you to places you don't want to be.

A late-night call from frantic client Barney, standing near the corpse of his wannabe-actress wife, drags Frank into the world he had so carefully avoided in his practice. And he is just about the only one who believes that Barney did not murder her. Even Barney's criminal defense attorney has trouble spinning a scenario in which Barney didn't do it. Facing his reluctant task with humor and introspection, Frank sets out to do what he can — and it does not seem like much can be done — to help Barney and figure out how maybe, just maybe, he didn't kill his wife.

Unraveling this mystery will not be about gory autopsies, automatic weapons, car chases, or thuggy ambushes in an alley — that just happens on TV shows or in novels written by ex-pathologists. There is no million-dollar Losteochorotograph to analyze blood splatter patterns. No sneaky courtroom magic tricks. Frank is actually going to have to use his head.

A QP Mystery, in the series The Frank May Chronicles.
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Death of a Wannabe
Frank May practices law, but he's getting by doing only the safe, bland kind — writing wills, forming partnerships, processing papers. Everything far from the seedy adventures of criminal law. But a dead body wakes you up and takes you to places you don't want to be.

A late-night call from frantic client Barney, standing near the corpse of his wannabe-actress wife, drags Frank into the world he had so carefully avoided in his practice. And he is just about the only one who believes that Barney did not murder her. Even Barney's criminal defense attorney has trouble spinning a scenario in which Barney didn't do it. Facing his reluctant task with humor and introspection, Frank sets out to do what he can — and it does not seem like much can be done — to help Barney and figure out how maybe, just maybe, he didn't kill his wife.

Unraveling this mystery will not be about gory autopsies, automatic weapons, car chases, or thuggy ambushes in an alley — that just happens on TV shows or in novels written by ex-pathologists. There is no million-dollar Losteochorotograph to analyze blood splatter patterns. No sneaky courtroom magic tricks. Frank is actually going to have to use his head.

A QP Mystery, in the series The Frank May Chronicles.
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Death of a Wannabe

Death of a Wannabe

by Lawrence Friedman
Death of a Wannabe

Death of a Wannabe

by Lawrence Friedman

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Overview

Frank May practices law, but he's getting by doing only the safe, bland kind — writing wills, forming partnerships, processing papers. Everything far from the seedy adventures of criminal law. But a dead body wakes you up and takes you to places you don't want to be.

A late-night call from frantic client Barney, standing near the corpse of his wannabe-actress wife, drags Frank into the world he had so carefully avoided in his practice. And he is just about the only one who believes that Barney did not murder her. Even Barney's criminal defense attorney has trouble spinning a scenario in which Barney didn't do it. Facing his reluctant task with humor and introspection, Frank sets out to do what he can — and it does not seem like much can be done — to help Barney and figure out how maybe, just maybe, he didn't kill his wife.

Unraveling this mystery will not be about gory autopsies, automatic weapons, car chases, or thuggy ambushes in an alley — that just happens on TV shows or in novels written by ex-pathologists. There is no million-dollar Losteochorotograph to analyze blood splatter patterns. No sneaky courtroom magic tricks. Frank is actually going to have to use his head.

A QP Mystery, in the series The Frank May Chronicles.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940013192881
Publisher: Quid Pro, LLC
Publication date: 08/01/2011
Series: The Frank May Chronicles
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 205
File size: 287 KB

About the Author

Lawrence Friedman is a senior professor of law at Stanford University, teaching courses in legal history and law & society. He is the author of 31 books of nonfiction, including the award-winning 'A History of American Law,' as well as three mystery novels.
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