John Grisham Presents the Best Legal Thrillers of All Time

John Grisham, the world’s most popular and successful author of legal thrillers for nearly forty years, shares this collection of outstanding stories selected from all over the world from various eras.

Some stories illustrate the humor lurking in a courtroom, others highlight the anxiety of defendants, while still more spotlight the shocking violence that resulted in arrest and trial. Told from the perspective of judges, prosecutors, jurists, defense attorneys, victims, and defendants, this wide-ranging selection of mystery stories will surprise and delight readers with the drama unfolding in the courtroom with occasional glimpses at the behind-the-scenes machinations of the representatives of various justice systems through the years.

There are cases here about murder, of course, as well as assault, infidelity, theft—all the foibles of those who have strayed from the path of acceptable behavior. Among the participants are kindly lawyers who are more interested in justice than in the law; and there are the other kind, too, who will stop at nothing to emerge triumphant in their courtroom battles.

Among the contributors to this volume are some of the most beloved writers who ever lived, including W. Somerset Maugham; Guy de Maupassant; Shel Silverstein; Erle Stanley Gardner, America’s all-time bestselling mystery writer; and Agatha Christie, who has outsold him and every other author who ever lived if we don’t count those who produced the Bible. The stories by less well-known authors are no less suspenseful and deliver equally surprising endings. Sit back and enjoy this cornucopia of courtroom crime