Book Review : Alibi for a Judge by Henry Cecil

I enjoyed this story about Mr Justice Carstairs who feels a sense of remorse that he favoured the prosecution during a criminal trial.

William Burford has been sentenced to a long stretch for a crime he says he didn’t commit. His wife, Lesley, tells the judge that a man called Thompson committed the crime and that Thompson looks like her husband and framed him. Lesley and Judge Carstairs tour the racecourses of England looking for Thompson until evidence is provided that this Thompson died during the war. However, this proves untrue upon investigation…

Lesley and the judge fall out quite often, but ultimately stick together to the end.