From the Book: Max Harriss tried to murder his mother's lover; Jackson Fentry hung a jury because he refused to acquit a man who had defended his daughter's honor; Joel Flint almost succeeded in impersonating a dead man. Why these men, and the other unforgettable characters in this fascinating book, behaved as they did, is the job which Gavin Stevens, student of crime and the folkways of the South, sets himself to unravel in Knight's Gambit.
"Justice," Stevens contends, "is luck, injustice and platitude in unequal parts." In best detective story fashion, he poses the mystery and seeks the solution to these crimes, and in so doing he reveals the hearts and minds of his people, in all their complexity of passion, emotion and beliefs.
Here, too, we learn more about Gavin Stevens, the compassionate defender and interpreter of human frailty, who figured prominently in Intruder in the Dust (Signet #743). A chance error in sending a letter to his mistress in an envelope addressed to his sweetheart, had kept him apart from the woman he loved for over twenty years.
Copyright:
1949
Book Details
Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
192 Pages
Publisher:
The New American Library of World Literature, Inc.