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Fiction Crime

Kill All the Judges

An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

by (author) William Deverell

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2021
Category
Crime, Noir, Legal
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770416444
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $26.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773058511
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $13.99
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781773059761
    Publish Date
    May 2022
    List Price
    $29.99

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Complex, fascinating, and fun … Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada’s best, and with good reason.” — Shelf Life

Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize

Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown. He finds himself chasing all kinds of leads, including tracking down a mystery novel that Brown’s unreliable former lawyer has been writing, just as Beauchamp’s own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party.

Complex, madcap, and peopled with some of the most delightfully eccentric characters to be found between two covers, Kill All the Judges proves William Deverell’s mastery of the hilariously comedic crime novel.

 

About the author

Contributor Notes

 

After careers as a journalist, criminal lawyer, and political activist, William Deverell turned to fiction and on his first effort won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. Since then, he has earned multiple prizes for his 20 published novels, including the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing in North America, two Crime Writers of Canada Awards (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award) for Best Canadian Novel, and two runners-up for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He holds two honorary Doctor of Letters degrees and lives in Pender Island, British Columbia.