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Complex, fascinating, and fun … Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada's best, and with good reason." - Shelf Life Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown. show more He finds himself chasing all kinds of leads, including tracking down a mystery novel that Brown's unreliable former lawyer has been writing, just as Beauchamp's own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party. Complex, madcap, and peopled with some of the most delightfully eccentric characters to be found between two covers, Kill All the Judges proves William Deverell's mastery of the hilariously comedic crime novel. show lessTags
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Like his character, Deverell is also a criminal lawyer, founder of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, whose books draw on his experiences in the courtroom and as an activist. In the highly entertaining Arthur Beauchamp mystery series he successfully merges satire, comedy and eccentric yet believable characters while engaging in criminal investigations. His courtroom dramas are highly entertaining. In this story, it is the judges who are being targeted. The accused is an island neighbour, activist and author of ribald poetry. He has created some friction with Beauchamp because as a forestry clearcut protester he was up a tree for weeks with Beauchamp's wife and made a pass at her. His defence lawyer is in hiding suffering show more from a nervous - or possibly cocaine - breakdown and whose imagination has been unbalanced by his writing a novel similar to the case. Beauchamp's harried junior and hero-worshipper is also being influenced by his own imagined version of the case, where he too is a legal star. Complex, funny and clever. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2008
- People/Characters
- Arthur Beauchamp; Judge Whynet-Moir; Cudworth Brown; Brian Pomeroy; Margaret Blake
- Important places
- Garibaldi Island, British Columbia, Canada (fictitious island); Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Epigraph
- Neither Fish, Flesh, Nor Good Red Herring. - John Heywood, 1546
- Dedication
- To the memory of David Gibbons, QC, my former partner in law, whose generosity, good humour, and largeness of spirit touched all who knew him, and whose courtroom artistry was surpassed by none.
- First words
- There was no dispute about the facts. A hundred-pound weakling with the redundant name of Gilbert F. Gilbert had stepped into a crowded Vancouver courtroom and aimed a small-calibre revolver at Chief Justice Wilbur Kroop. A p... (show all)olice officer leaped from the witness stand, and as he tackled Gilbert the gun fired. The officer stopped the bullet with his heart.
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- English
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