The D. A. Goes to Trial by Erle Stanley Gardner The D. A. Goes to Trial Erle Stanley Gardner New York: Triangle Books, 1944 283 pages The binding is in acceptable condition. The pages are clean but very tanned, the grey cover is toned and lightly rubbed. There is a price sticker on the front flap and the flaps are foxed. The jacket is very rubbed and edge worn and there are some small losses. Acceptable. Hardcover. The dead hobo, apparently struck by a train as he crossed the wooden trestle outside Madison City, was a run of the mill case for the police. They did take fingerprints, a routine of the department. And they were happy to get a wire from a relative, giving instructions and paying for the cremation. It was only when the police were faced with an absconded bookkeeper who was short in his accounts and a dead banker whose vaults had been looted that the dead hobo assumed importance. But by that time, there was no body to identify in one of the most diabolically clever cases of deliberate murder which Doug Selby, the crusading young District Attorney had ever been called upon to solve. (#00002333)