About the book: 1939 / Why did Richard Arnold, one of the twelve jurors, save Viola Ross, a beauty not unreasonably accused of murdering her elderly husband, from the gallows? Why did he begin to obsessively prove that he was killed by his son from his first marriage, whom he threatened to disinherit? And finally, what does Arnold himself have to do with two more mysterious deaths? Arthur Crook, Arnold's lawyer, decides to unravel this chain of crimes at any cost…