First published in 1962, this is the biography of American journalist, novelist and screenwriter Adela Rogers St. Johns' father, Earl Rogers, a renowned Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer in the early 20th century. St. Johns draws on a succession of her father's well-known court trials, including the trial that centered on perhaps the most famous lawyer-client disagreements recorded in legal history: those that developed between Clarence Darrow,...

The divorcee: a socialite discovers her husband has been unfaithful. In her despair, she sleeps with his best friend, and then confesses, expecting her husband to forgive her. A free soul: a lawyer saves a gambler from a murder rap, but makes the mistake of introducing the gambler to his daughter.