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Worthy Brown's daughter

One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worth...

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Main Author: Margolin, Phillip (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, [2014]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Freedmen > Fiction.
Lawyers > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > Fiction.
Freemen > Oregon > Portland > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Rescues > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Oregon > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Portland (Or.) > 19th century > Fiction.
Suspense fiction > Oregon.
Legal stories > Oregon.
Historical fiction > Oregon.
Summary: One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
Physical Description: 345 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-345).
ISBN: 9780062195340
0062195344
Author Notes: Philip Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. He received a bachelor's degree in government from The American University in 1965. From 1965 to 1967, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1970. From 1972 until 1996, he was in private practice in Portland, Oregon, specializing in criminal defense. He has tried many high profile cases and has argued in the Supreme Court. He was the first attorney to use the battered woman's syndrome defense in a homicide case in Oregon.

His first novel, Heartstone, was published in 1978. He has been a full-time author since 1996. His other works include The Last Innocent Man; Gone, But Not Forgotten; After Dark; The Burning Man; The Undertaker's Widow; Wild Justice; The Associate; Sleeping Beauty; Capitol Murder and Sleight of Hand. He also writes short stories and non-fiction articles in magazines and law journals.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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