HANLON. A Casebook

Hardback. Minnie Dean, the respectable ex-schoolmistress who was so proud of her garden....did she use it as a graveyard and was she the merciless poisoner of legend? Was Charles Clements fully sane when he butchered his wife with a tomahawk? Did Hugh Sweeney, in fact, kill his mistress and set fire to her cottage to cover his crime? These and other crimes are described in this book, a selection of many of the famous cases, mainly murder, that were defended by Alfred Charles Hanlon. In the latter years of the 19th century and in the first 3 decades of the 20th, Hanlon's name was a legend in law. While carving out a one-man law practice from the entrenched partnerships of Otago's legal society "Alf" Hanlon was to defend, usually with dramatic success, a great number of murder cases. Whatever the outcome, the cases described show the skill and originality that were to give Hanlon a place in New Zealand's legal history. Made into a TV series for New Zealand television. Illus. + Appendices. 180pp. 4to hardback. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. bro-dart protected dw. This book weighs approx., 800g.