The Twelfth Juror
by B.M. Gill
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Author: B.M. GillEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1985-09-12
ISBN: 0345325168
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: The Twelfth Juror--It's a mystery that this book isn't on everyone's top ten best list
Summary: 5 Stars
B. M. Gill is the pseudonym of British crime writer Barbara Margaret Trimble (b. 1921), who also writes under the name of Margaret Blake.
I stumbled upon "The Twelfth Juror," because I have a particular interest in novels in which jurors are major characters (excluding all of Grisham's novels). If I weren't writing a series of mysteries myself about a juror-turned-amateur-sleuth, I probably would never have discovered this marvelous writer. Now I'm scouring the web for used copies of her other books, because everything she wrote appears to be out of print (last pub. date 1991)--and only published in the U.K. to boot.
"The Twelfth Juror" is a page-turner and very smart, too--which is rare. Much like the BBC's miniseries, "The Jury," "The Twelfth Juror" follows a murder trial day by day and into deliberations; at night, though, it follows one of the jurors home. The twelve jurors are all interesting characters with personal reasons for agreeing to serve on the jury. The murder is a real whodunit. And the ending, while logical and inevitable, is startling.
Find a used copy of this book here at Amazon. I paid only $0.39 plus $3.99 shipping/handling--and would have paid more given my reasons for buying it. Having read it, I will gladly pay more the rest of Ms. Trimble's "corpus."
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