Upending Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Little Girl,” Samantha Brinkman, the protagonist in Marcia Clark’s series that concludes—for now, at least—with Final Judgement, “When she was good/She was very good indeed/But when she was bad, she was even better.” As a defense attorney, Sam is relentless; but when she’s defending her boyfriend, you can add ruthless, fierce… Read more »
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Episode 52: Marcia Clark
In her foreword to the re-publication of Compulsion, Meyer Levin’s remarkable novel based on the 1924 Leopold and Loeb trial in Chicago, Marcia Clark—who knows a thing or two about “Trials of the Century”—reminds us that almost 60 years after its publication, Levin’s look at the justice system’s role in society continues to ring true… Read more »
Upcoming Interviews: Christopher Brookmyre, Marsha Clark, Tom Nolan & Attica Locke
This week Speaking of Mysteries takes a break to catch up on its reading But we’ll be back on Monday April 20 with our next series of interviews: Christopher Brookmyre on Dead Girl Walking, his most recent Jack Parlabane mystery Marsha Clark on her foreword for the new edition of Meyer Levin’s Compulsion from Fig Tree… Read more »
