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When the law can take a life, how much room is there for doubt?
In Only Seven Were Hanged, Stuart Martin brings crime, a trial and the question of guilt into the shadow of the gallows. Capital punishment gives the mystery its weight: the search for truth matters not only because a crime demands an answer, but because a sentence can cost a life.
The book belongs to the early twentieth century detective tradition, where clues and questions of guilt draw the reader onward. Testimony, proof and human judgment stand beside the troubling possibility that a secret can survive a trial. As you read, the question is not simply who is guilty, but whether the law reaches the truth.
What you’ll discover
- The weight of judgment Consider what a finding of guilt means when the gallows stands behind the sentence.
- Justice under question Explore the uneasy space between what a court decides and what is true.
- Secrets beyond the record Follow a mystery shaped by what people conceal and why they conceal it.
- Details worth watching Keep track of times, places and who knows what as the facts emerge.
- Doubt with deadly stakes Feel the weight that capital punishment brings to questions of proof and responsibility.
Who will love it
For readers who love courtroom duels, old-fashioned crime puzzles and stories that ask what justice really means. If you enjoy tension built from talk, with a debate at its heart, this one is yours.
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- A club of crime lovers meets on Christmas Eve
- The new waiter puts the judge on trial
- A puzzling murder and a hidden code
- A perfect alibi and a murder that fails
- The Mole and the question of born criminals
- A hunted man searches for shelter
- Vanity, passion and the claim that hanging deters
- Blind justice and the limits of certainty
- What the book is really about, and how it is told
Who’s who
- The judgeA proud criminal court judge and president of the Clue Club, who defends hanging and believes the law is blind and fair.
- The waiterA clever, bitter stranger who takes the real waiter's place and sets out to prove that the death penalty is unjust.
- Ammar BaddanA Tamil merchant from Calcutta who kills an English innkeeper in Surrey according to a code of honor few understand.
- Abe LammieA burglar nicknamed the Mole, who lives like a burrowing animal and traps others to protect himself.
- Jeff ConnollyAn American in England who kills in a jealous rage and then runs for his life through the countryside.
- Nathaniel GoreA vain, perfumed jewel thief who sets out to steal a great African diamond from a liner at sea.
- Walter SealeA City dealer whose case appears in the club's minute book.
- John WilliamsA moneylender's manservant whose case enters the debate.
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Solo sette furono impiccati
On Christmas Eve a substitute waiter drugs a club of crime lovers and puts a judge on trial for the gallows.
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What if a waiter at your club offered to put the presiding judge on trial for his life? In Only Seven Were Hanged, Stuart Martin sets one Christmas Eve night in a room full of sleeping crime enthusiasts.
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A club of crime lovers meets on Christmas Eve
The Clue Club is small, exclusive and devoted to one thing, the study of crime and clues. Those who belong are lawyers, doctors, actors, artists, politicians and novelists, plus one clergyman. No policeman or detective belongs.
On Christmas Eve the club gathers for dinner by a crackling fire while snow falls outside. A criminal court judge presides, wearing a face so unreadable that juries and lawyers have often misjudged it. Relics fill the room, including a model of a gallows and a black bludgeon dug from the Thames mud, said to have belonged to a barbarian called Kartarus. The previous meeting voted to keep the death penalty as a warning to wrongdoers.
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What is Only Seven Were Hanged about?
It is about a Christmas Eve night at the Clue Club, when a substitute waiter drugs the members and challenges the judge presiding over them. They trade cases from the club's minute book to decide whether the death penalty is just.
Who is the waiter in Only Seven Were Hanged?
He is a clever stranger who takes the club's waiter's place for one night. He uses several aliases, and his real purpose and identity become clear as the cases and the debate unfold.
What is the Clue Club?
It is a small, exclusive club of lawyers, doctors, artists, actors and others who share an interest in crime and clues. They meet monthly to discuss murders and keep relics of famous crimes.
The author
Stuart Martin
1986–? · British writer
British film actor, television actor and dub actor.
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