By Erle Stanley Gardner. “Here are the true inside stories of innocent men wrongly convicted of murder — and how they were set free”; “YOU and every other thinking American, you are the Court of Last Resort.” Gardner and a panel of “crime experts” investigated wrongful convictions over half a decade, sometimes in the pages of Argosy. The result won an early Edgar.
Most of these names (Clarence Biggie, the Brite brothers) haven’t remained notable, but this Cardinal PB from 1954 is a solid addition to your midcentury genre library. Some edgewear and tanned pages, but it sits very straight; pages are snug and unnmarked.