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_aPerry, Clay, _d1887-1961 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aWhat's life worth? |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from the April 7, 1930 issue of The Popular magazine. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-02-20 | ||
| 508 | _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net) | ||
| 520 | _aWhat's life worth? by Clay Perry is a short story written in the early 20th century. Set in a Northwoods logging town, it blends courtroom drama with a modest mystery, centering on a young woman lawyer defending a man accused of murdering a powerful lumberman. The likely topic is the search for truth and redemption amid corruption, despair, and small-town pressure. The story opens with the grim arraignment of “Watts Lifeworth,” a defiant camp hand who startlingly pleads guilty to killing Big Steve Laramie. Judge Thurman forces a not-guilty plea and, at the man’s request, assigns the town’s novice woman attorney, Mary Lee. Trusting her instincts, Mary pries past his fatalism and learns he is Billy Knowles, burdened by a life of calamities and by loyalty to his brother Jim. As Mary investigates, a visit from Ellie Knowles (Jim’s widow) and clues about a fired rifle abandoned in the rail yard reveal that Jim had confronted Laramie and later killed himself, while Billy had gone to the house carrying an unfireable gun, prepared to take the blame. Mary rekindles his will to live, and the tale closes with the clear implication that her defense prevails and Billy’s life, once deemed worthless, becomes long and meaningful. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1930 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aTrials (Murder) -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aLegal stories | ||
| 653 | _aWomen lawyers -- Fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from the April 7, 1930 issue of The Popular magazine. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/popular-magazine-v-099-n-02-1930-03-07 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77981 |
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