#336 Fragments of Justice- Dashiell Hammett
Three men completely different from each other sit on a jury. One man old and addled just wants to feel important one more time; the second an old world
protestant, who’s crowning achievement in life was quitting his social club
after they let in a Jew, wants the world to be like it was; and the third is a
beaten down man that just wants someone else to be punished.
Hammett tales are often a “long-standing interest in the
ways in which men struggle to find their places among each other and in the
world…” This is one of those. It was not published during his lifetime.
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