THE INNOCENCE OF PASTOR MÜLLER (156 pp.)Carlo BeufDuell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50).
The first of the anonymous letters was received in Berlin by a Weimar Republic judge who had just pronounced sentence in an embezzlement case. "You are an ass," the letter read. "You have condemned an innocent man. The guilty party is the director of the bank." The director was investigated and found guilty.
When the judge acquitted a woman of poisoning her husband, he got a second letter. "Will you never learn anything? Didn't it ever occur to you ... to inquire whether or not the old cuckold had actually...
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