Bibliograph

Lion plays rough, a Leo Maxwell mystery, Lachlan Smith

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Lion plays rough, a Leo Maxwell mystery, Lachlan Smith

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Lion plays rough

Oclc number

868896084

Responsibility statement

Lachlan Smith

Series statement

Leo Maxwell mystery Mysterious Press

Sub title

a Leo Maxwell mystery

Summary

Leo Maxwell always lived in the shadow of his older brother Teddy, one of San Francisco's most ruthless and effective criminal defense lawyers. Then a gunman shot Teddy in the head. Although Teddy survived the shooting, he has been left disabled and dependent on Leo, now a criminal defense attorney practicing in Oakland. The Maxwell brothers are living together in Oakland while Leo, chafing in his role as junior attorney in his former sister-in-law's small criminal defense firm, is on the lookout for the big case that will make his reputation. He thinks he's found that when a mysterious woman nearly runs him down, then appears at his office to hire him to defend her brother on a murder charge. One problem: Leo hasn't actually met the client when he sets out to investigate what seems like a hot tip on a burgeoning scandal in the Oakland Police Department. Leo takes a series of photographs that seem to blow the lid on deep-set corruption in the Department. However, when he brings these pictures to the attention of the District Attorney's office, he quickly learns that all is not as it seems, beginning with Leo's client and the alluring woman who hired him

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