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...Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver...
Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voellcer, who as Robert Traver wrote the fictional bestselling Anatomy of a Murder, likes an occasional sauna bath with his Finnish neighbors, deplores meddlers who interfere with the harmless customs of free citizens. Last week, writing the opinion for a decision exonerating four nudists, Justice Voelker-who is privately "revolted" by nudism-went after some offensive cops. Four carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent-indeed the one big indecency we can find...
...books are strictly for lawyers, but books with lawyer heroes seem to fascinate almost everybody. Two such novels are currently running No. 1 and 2 on national bestseller lists: Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver (TIME, Jan. 6). and By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens (TIME, Sept. 2). The books handle "nice sharp quillets of the law" expertly, but differently. Anatomy of a Murder (the author, hiding behind a pen name, is John D. Voelker, justice of the Michigan Supreme Court) suffers from inexpert writing but describes in fascinating detail the elaborate, unpredictable mechanism that controls the outwardly...
...packaged as fiction, 2) taken by the Book-of-the-Month Club, 3) sold to the movies before publication, and 4) optioned by a Broadway producer. The payoff in this case goes to John D. Voelker, 54, a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Using the pseudonym of Robert Traver, he writes out of 23 years' experience as a trial lawyer and county prosecutor in Ishpeming (pop. 9,400), a mining center set amid the rocks, swamps and forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula...
Edwin Heister will lead the Lord Jeffs to the fray, with Art Palmer, John Bower, Bob Pfeifer, Jim Alexander, Bob Izant, Barold Still, Lee Pattison, and Bill Traver filling the ranks of the home forces...