The Long Blue Nose Of The Law

The Long Blue Nose of the LawIt is characteristic of big American cities that after the still small Puritan voices inside them have sounded long enough they rise up in righteousness and plump overwhelmingly for reform. When that happens, criminal lawyers become very, very busy.Such a reform movement hit San Francisco in the mid-forties. In quick succession, Jake Ehrlich, the brilliant criminal lawyer, was asked to represent: a jolly, balding bigamist laughingly dubbed the "Ding-dong Daddy o...