The Man of Last Resort

The Man of Last Resort (1897)
by Melville Davisson Post

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Novelettes / short stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients' advantage. In the first two volumes (The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason and this, the second, Mason is depicted as an utterly amoral character who advises criminals how to commit wrongdoings without breaking the letter of the law. Post deflected criticism of such sensational stories by affirming that he was publicly exposing weaknesses in the law that needed to be rectified. Nevertheless, in a third volume (The Corrector of Destinies), Mason had become a reformed man who used his knowledge of the law for more beneficent purposes.

[Book 2 in the Randolph Mason series]

2540280The Man of Last Resort1897Melville Davisson Post

BY

MELVILLE DAVISSON POST

DWELLERS IN THE HILLS

THE MAN OF LAST RESORT

THE STRANGE SCHEMES OF
RANDOLPH MASON. . .

THE MAN OF LAST RESORT

OR THE CLIENTS OF
RANDOLPH MASON

BY
MELVILLE DAVISSON POST

Author of "The Strange Schemes of
Randolph Mason"

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press

Copyright, 1897
by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
——
Sixth Printing

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

CONTENTS.

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