The Conundrum of the Two-Sided Lawyer

By: S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Hugh Kerr Mystery Series “The Conundrum of the Two-Sided Lawyer” (Book IV in the Series) The “Kerr Gang” is back in Los Angeles where it falls to Ellen to try and reestablish Hugh’s shattered self-image so he can go back to practicing law. One of the first items on the agenda is to re-address the murder case Hugh lost before he fled to Canada on what could have been the final trip of his life. The case, as presented, was uncomplicated. Daniel Jenkins, Hugh’s client, was convicted of the murder of a man named Richard Green by bludgeoning him on the head with a rock. The D.A., Bartholomew Bond, argued it had been a robbery gone bad and called on two eye-witnesses to substantiate his conclusion. Unwillingly drawn into representing Jenkins because Green’s last words had been “Hugh Kerr,” the attorney had argued Jenkins was merely at the wrong place at the wrong time and that he had no legitimate motive to either rob or kill Green. Ultimately, the jury believed the eye-witnesses and convicted Jenkins, sparing his life for a term of life imprisonment. Believing the eye-witnesses had lied and that they, or in conjunction with two other men who fled the scene, were the real culprits, the Kerr Gang begin their re-investigation by attempting to link these men to the murdered man. Discovering the names all five had used were aliases and tracing the four actual murderers to the rented rooms they stayed in, Kerr is confronted with the startling fact all were Canadian nationals, and in pronouncing his name with his final breath, Green had, in fact, been trying to leave him a clue as to his purpose in Los Angeles Nearly bringing the crime full circle, Hugh realizes the little black book his father and then his brother kept, detailing the names and dates of all the rum-running and heroin transactions they were involved in, was behind the murder. The men of St-Raymond, believing the book contained directions to where Bernard Kerr hid the mob money he stole, had finally been stirred to action. Believing either Hugh had the book or knew where the money was, they had come to get what they considered their due. A falling out among thieves had led to Green’s death. Proving that would not only exonerate Daniel Jenkins, but would possibly help Hugh solve the conflicts of his childhood which had plagued him for so long.