It bugs me a little in cop books when obvious details are
off. I
guess the classic case is the writer who has his detective,
lacking a body,
say that no prosecution is possible absent a "corpus
delicti". Gag. Lots
more when I read a courtroom scene that could not happen. I
feel that
inadequate research betrays a certain contempt for the
reader.
As far as accuracy in the legal trade goes, I would single
out
Thompson's _Nothing More Than Murder_ as extraordinary (only
murder story I
know of that is based on a point in Antitrust law) and Cain's
_Double
Indemnity_.
If Dick Treat were still here I would ask him for some bad
examples
of phoniness in the medical arena
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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