The Trial of Callista Blake

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THE TRIAL OF CALLISTA BLAKE

Transcriber's note:

 

EDGAR PANGBORN

There is no ethical absolute that does not arise from error and illusion.
GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON, The meaning of Evolution.

 

St Martin's Press
New York


Copyright © Edgar Pangborn 1961
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 61-13391
Manufactured in the United States of America
by H. Wolff, New York

The author wishes to express his thanks to William Morrow & Company, Inc., for permission to use an excerpt from THE COURT OF LAST RESORT by Erle Stanley Gardner, Copyright 1952 by Erle Stanley Gardner; to Yale University Press for permission to use a quotation from G. G. Simpson's THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION; and to Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to use a passage from THE STORY OF MY LIFE by Clarence Darrow.


To the
Memory of
My Father


NOTE: All characters in this novel are fictitious, not intended to resemble any actual persons living or dead. The locale is semifictitious: for "New Essex" read "almost any of the northeastern States within a 300-mile radius of New York City."

E.P.


THE TRIAL OF CALLISTA BLAKE

 


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