Death On Pine Street

http://www.munseys.com/book/14397/DEATH_ON_PINE_STREET

"I had had people try to frame me before — no detective stays in the business long without having it happen — but I had never got used to it. There's a peculiar deadliness about the thing — especially if you know how erratic juries can be — that makes your flesh crawl, no matter how safe your judgment tells you you are."

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