The Resource The racketeer, John Grisham
The racketeer, John Grisham
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The item The racketeer, John Grisham represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Who is the racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name is Malcolm Bannister, a former attorney now incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. His body was found in the basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies, Judge Fawcett and his young secretary, and one state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied. I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why. I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story.--From book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385535144
- Label
- The racketeer
- Title
- The racketeer
- Statement of responsibility
- John Grisham
- Subject
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- Suspense fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Detective and mystery stories
- trueFBI
- Suspense fiction
- trueMurder investigation
- trueLawyers -- Imprisonment
- trueJudges -- Death
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- Judges -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- trueMurderers
- trueSerial murders
- Mystery fiction
- trueLegal thrillers
- Suspense fiction, American
- Legal stories, American
- Legal stories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Who is the racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name is Malcolm Bannister, a former attorney now incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. His body was found in the basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies, Judge Fawcett and his young secretary, and one state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied. I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why. I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story.--From book jacket
- Summary
- When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why
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- 10145299
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Grisham, John
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Prisoners
- Judges
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The racketeer, John Grisham
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn793326683
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385535144
- Lccn
- 2012460008
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)793326683
- Label
- The racketeer, John Grisham
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn793326683
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385535144
- Lccn
- 2012460008
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)793326683
Subject
- Detective and mystery stories
- Detective and mystery stories
- trueFBI
- Judges -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- trueJudges -- Death
- trueLawyers -- Imprisonment
- Legal stories
- Legal stories, American
- trueLegal thrillers
- trueMurder investigation
- trueMurderers
- Mystery fiction
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- trueSerial murders
- Suspense fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Suspense fiction, American
Genre
- Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction
- trueLegal stories
- Legal stories, American
- trueLegal thrillers
- Mystery fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Suspense fiction, American
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