It is a delight to have the works of Melville Davisson Post available in affordable paperbacks. (Albeit in an oddly formatted independent printing.) In this second volume of Randolph Mason stories, Post uses an entirely immoral lawyer to expose defects in the law; each story includes references to, then, established case law precedents. (Post's and the then law's take on hedge investments is instructive.) Post was criticized for abetting "skillful rogues"; his defense, included in this volume, is alone worth the price. In fact, Post was an avant-garde 'white hat' hacker exposing flaws in the legal security system. Post was from the Virginias and his depictions of the people and culture are very interesting. He was wide travelled and his stories are wide ranging. His character portrayals are adept and his narratives nicely constructed, but his main concern is justice, morality, and the law - and the distinctions which make all the difference. He can be quite droll. Like Mark Twain, he was an unflinching man of his time and so some may find distress or offense in some of his language; i think he reveals the casual bigotry which cut across all segments of society at the time and helps explicate obstacles to our struggle for fairness and respect today. Here is my favorite quote: The unwritten records of business ventures and the reports of the courts are crowded with the record of huge schemes having for their ultimate purpose the robbery of the citizen...Enough have brought great fortunes to their daring perpetrators to appall that one who looks on with the welfare of human society at heart.
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