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Laughing whitefish
Laughing whitefish
Author: Robert Traver
Willy Poe is a newcomer to Michigan's Upper Peninsula -- a shy, lonely young lawyer yearning to meet the girl who will call him William. On a lovely day in July in 1873, he meets her. Her name is Laughing Whitefish. She presents him with as exciting, challenging and hopeless a case as ever set a precedent. At issue is an elemental question o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312474867
ISBN-10: 0312474865
Publication Date: 1983
Pages: 312
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Very similar to Anatomy of a Murder but with a different case to work, and in a different time. Lots of UP and Marquette history.
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rom the master author who set the standard for thrilling courtroom drama with the bestselling classic Anatomy of a Murder, another stylish courtroom novel. Laughing Whitefish is a tragic love story based on a 19th-century Indian land case that ended up in the Michigan Supreme Court.


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