TY - BOOK AU - Mason,A.E.W. TI - Witness for the Defence AV - PR PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Legal stories N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_for_the_Defence; Release date is 2004-06-01; Produced by Ted Garvin, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Witness for the Defence" by A. E. W. Mason is a mystery and adventure novel published in 1913. When barrister Henry Thresk encounters a photograph of Stella Derrick, a woman he once knew, he travels to India to find her trapped in an abusive marriage. After her husband is found shot dead, Stella faces murder charges. Thresk gives perjured testimony to save her, but his false witness sets in motion consequences that will haunt them both as buried truths threaten to surface. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12535 ER -