False Witness Author:Dexter Dias By his own admission, Tom Fawley is the laziest and most cynical excuse for a man who ever tossed on a barrister's wig. To him, law is a living--no more, no less--and the exalted Old Bailey a glorified moral dustbin where Fawley and his breed clean up society's mess, without benefit of gloves. — This time Fawley has a devil for a cli... more »ent, and he doesn't have a prayer.
The accused is Richard Kingsley, a crippled pulp novelist with a record of lewd behavior, who has confessed to the killing. The victim is beautiful sixteen year-old Molly Summers, found stabbel forty-three times without apparent struggle in the ancient circle of stones of Stonebury Village.
To the press, the case is a sensation. To the law, it is a scandal. To Fawley, it becomes a journey. It will alter his life in a way he scarcely could have anticipated, and certainly could never have hoped for. « less