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About Tutt and Mr. Tutt
Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train is a lively 1920 collection of legal stories full of courtroom ingenuity, comic reversals, and human sympathy. Ideal for readers who enjoy classic crime and mystery fiction, it follows the wily lawyer Ephraim Tutt as he turns eccentric cases, legal technicalities, and ordinary injustice into entertaining displays of wit and advocacy.
Why Read Tutt and Mr. Tutt?
In the hands of Ephraim Tutt, the law is not merely a system of rules but a stage on which ingenuity, timing, and a stubborn sense of fairness can still produce the unexpected.
Tutt and Mr. Tutt is an excellent choice for readers who enjoy legal fiction with humor, pace, and a strong feel for the human comedy of the courtroom. Arthur Cheney Train knew how to make procedure entertaining, and these stories draw much of their charm from the contrast between dry legal form and the lively, often eccentric realities of the people caught inside it.
At the center of the collection is Mr. Tutt himself, a lawyer whose experience, shrewdness, and theatrical intelligence allow him to navigate cases that others might dismiss as trivial, hopeless, or absurd. He is not merely clever for the sake of display. What makes him memorable is the sense that wit and technical knowledge are being used in the service of something more generous: a determination to outmaneuver pettiness, expose injustice, or rescue a client from the blunt machinery of official judgment.
One of the book’s main pleasures is its variety. Each case brings a different puzzle of motive, evidence, social circumstance, or legal interpretation, and Train keeps the stories moving by grounding them in strong situations rather than abstract doctrine. The law is always present, but never deadening. Instead, it becomes the means by which personality, conflict, and comic surprise are brought into focus.
The tone is especially appealing. These are crime-adjacent stories, but they are not grim. Train writes with warmth and wit, allowing the courtroom to become a place not only of danger or punishment but also of absurdity, improvisation, and moral argument. That balance gives the collection much of its enduring readability.
Readers who enjoy classic crime fiction, legal stories, and clever short narratives built around advocacy and reversal will find much to like here. Tutt and Mr. Tutt is brisk, intelligent, and highly entertaining, offering a memorable lawyer whose best cases are won as much by imagination as by law.
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