To Account for Murder

The 1945 gangland slaying of Michi_x0002_gan Senator Warren G. Hooper, who was about to testify in a probe of government corruption, was shocking. Whitbeck, Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Ap_x0002_peals, follows in the tradition of Michi_x0002_gan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker (‘Robert Traver’) the author of Anatomy of a Murder, another thinly fictionalized account of a true murder case. —Clews