New York: McGraw-Hill, (1961) dj. Hardcover - A novel set in the Texas panhandle, the story of a murder trial of a young vagrant accused of killing one of the richest and most generous men in the town, and of the attorney who realizes that in order to obtain even a semblance of justice for his client he will have to ruin the lives of innocent people and destroy a man's reputation. Winner of the McGraw Hill Fiction Award. 328 pp.