Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: purposes, cross
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1842320459
ISBN-13: 9781842320457

The Bartons are a happy family who are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Then, one day, Mrs Barton wins a large sum on the football pools and their lives change forever. The Bartons are a kind couple and they use their newly won fortune to help their family and friends. This leads them into a tangled web serious legal and moral problems and they find themselves worse off than before.

Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: law, brothers
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1842320467
ISBN-13: 9781842320464

Roger Thursby, aged twenty-four, is called to the bar. He is young, inexperienced and his love life is complicated. He blunders his way through a succession of comic adventures including his calamitous debut at the bar. His career takes an upward turn when he is chosen to defend the caddish Alfred Greenat the Old Bailey. In this first Roger Thursby novel Henry Cecil satires the legal profession with his usual wit and insight.

Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: evidence, according
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1842320483
ISBN-13: 9781842320488

Alec Morland is on trial for murder. He has tried to remedy the ineffectiveness of the law by taking matters into his own hands. Unfortunately for him, his alleged crime was not committed in immediate defense of others or of himself. In this fascinating murder trial you will not find out until the very end just how the law will interpret his actions. Will his defense be accepted or does a different fate await him?

Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: favour
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1842320602
ISBN-13: 9781842320600

‘If everyone had a perfectly clear conscience, the blackmailer would have no chance’. So begins a trial in which the unfortunate judge is himself blackmailed. Unwittingly ‘picked up’ by a ‘respectable-looking girl’ the judge finds himself put into an impossible situation in which an unscrupulous blackmailer threatens his career and personal life in an attempt to steer the course of a trial to an acquittal. Can Mr Justice Slaughter save himself from ruin and degradation?

Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: causes, natural
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1842320580
ISBN-13: 9781842320587

When megalomaniac proprietor of the Clarion Newspapers Ltd, Alexander Bean is humiliated in court by judge Mr Justice Beverly, he swears revenge. He engages the services of Sidney York to find a way to blackmail the judge. The situation gets out of hand when Sidney dies in a mysterious accident. The judge and his family fall under suspicion. Thus Alexander Bean becomes involved in a story that runs out of control for all those involved until it reaches its final unexpected conclusion

Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: court, settled
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1842320637
ISBN-13: 9781842320631

’Portrait of a Judge’ is the first fascinating story in this collection of short stories based on all matters legal. Written with cracking pace and full of unexpected twists, paradoxes and subtleties the book will have you riveted to the very last page.

Author: Henry Cecil
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: law, fathers
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1842320521
ISBN-13: 9781842320525

What rights does a natural father have in an adoption case? How does the court decide between the conflicting claims of each parent? In many ways this is a heart-rending story as Henry Cecil steers us through labyrinth of adoption law but tension is relieved his touches of humour right through to the unexpected outcome.