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A Defense for the Dead
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A Defense for the Dead Hardcover - 2004

by Fredrickson, Michael

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NY: Forge/Tom Doherty, 2004. 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.
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  • Title A Defense for the Dead
  • Author Fredrickson, Michael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st printing of 1st edition
  • Condition Used - Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher NY: Forge/Tom Doherty, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 658126
  • ISBN 9780312874575 / 031287457X
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.42 x 1.05 in (24.08 x 16.31 x 2.67 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Legal stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004040357
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About the author

Michael Fredrickson was born in rural Minnesota. He received his B.A. from Macalester College, studied English literature at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and at the University of Toronto. He worked as a college professor, a hippy farmer, an auto mechanic, a lumberjack, a bar musician, and a singing telegrapher before obtaining his law degree from Harvard Law School.
Fredrickson spent five years working in a large Boston law firm before becoming general counsel to the state agency that polices lawyers in Massachusetts. He has also taught legal ethics and other subjects at Boston law schools. His fascination with the ethical dilemmas lawyers face is evident his crime novels, particularly" A Cinderella Affidavit" (1999) and "A Defense for the Dead" (2004). His second novel, "A Witness for the Dead" (2001), was a Boston Globe bestseller and the biggest seller of the year at Spencer's Mystery Bookshop in Boston.
Fredrickson lives with his wife and son in the Boston area. He summers on Cape Cod and still returns regularly to visit friends and family in Minnesota. He has participated both as a teacher and as a student in the Demos Writers' Workshop.