The Second Man — Edward Grierson

Marion Kerrison is a young and inexperienced lawyer who is given as her first important assignment the defense of a shady character named John Maudsley who is charged with murder on apparently unassailable grounds. It's odds-on that her client will be convicted. But if Marion is inexperienced, she is also brilliant, and she brings to her profession insights and a flair for reality that transcend the usual rules of evidence. Guilty or innocent? Will Maudsley hang?