An ordinary road accident - a drunk driver knocks down a pedestrian at night . The injury is small - just a broken pinky . But the judge makes a collision, which during the visiting sessions of the court is endowed with royal honors and privileges. The authorities are trying to silence the offender, and the judge continues to hold court hearings, receiving anonymous threatening letters, attempts are made on him, and, in the end, a tragedy occurs. Who is guilty of this bloody denouement? The book was created on the basis of the experience of Cyril Hare as the secretary of the visiting district court and earned the most enthusiastic reviews of contemporary lawyers . The author of the novel methodically and wittyly describes the everyday work of the British court. Bright characters, as if descended from the pages of the books of Dickens or Thackeray, appear before the reader. Ahead of Inspector Mallett, Detective Scotland Yard, a failed lawyer Francis Pedigree finds the answer to the murder. The author's favorite novel, and in my opinion - the best of him . Miss Silver