SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS
Below are descriptions of the books. On the left are links for ordering copies.
(1) THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING CASE: WHAT THE LAWYERS SAID
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword, 1
Opening Statement by Mr. Wilentz, 3
Opening Statement by Mr. Fisher, 17
Summation by Mr. Hauck, 37
Summation by Mr. Reilly, 59
Summation by Mr. Wilentz, 155
Jury Charge by Judge Trenchard, 279
Appellate Opinion by Justice Parker, 299
(2) THE ANNOTATED CHANCELLOR CHESS by Ben R. Foster
WITH NOTES AND AN APPENDIX BY GEORGE R. DEKLE, SR.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication, ii
Preface, iii
Editor's Preface, iv
History, 1
Our Claim to Originality, 2
The New Game Described, 3
Chancellor Problem Tourney, 8
Tourney Problems, 16
Additional Problems, 30
Games, 40
Conclusion, 60
Solutions, 61
APPENDIX
A Proposed Modification in the Game of Chess--H.E. Bird, 67
Chancellor Chess through the Years--George R. Dekle, Sr., 71
Other Variants on the Nine-File Board--George R. Dekle, Sr., 89
The Evolution of Chess--George R. Dekle, Sr., 132
Bibliography, 143
(3) CHRONICLES OF CRIME AND CRIMINALS: THIRTY-TWO YEARS IN THE COURTROOM
An experimental volume I self-published which tells the stories of some of the cases I handled during my 32 year career as a trial lawyer.
Table of Contents
Introduction, 1
Chapter1: Deciding to Become a Lawyer, 4
Chapter 2: My First Murder Case, 9
Chapter 3: The Ballad of the Blind Victim, 21
Chapter 4: My First Capital Murder Case, 27
Chapter 5: The Wrong Man Murder, 37
Chapter 6: The Risks Associated with Being a Prosecutor, 41
Chapter 7: My Second Capital Murder Case, 49
Chapter 8: Genuine Self-Defense, 55
Chapter 9: Memories of Murder Weapons, 60
Chapter 10: Taxicab Confessions, 64
Chapter 11: Police Shootings, 71
Chapter 12: The "He Ran His Hand in His Pocket" Defense to a Charge of Murder, 77
Chapter 13: The Prosecutor's Dictionary, 82
Chapter 14: Men Who Kill Police Officers, 87
Chapter 15: Jury Duty, 90
Chapter 16: Jurors and Jury Selection, 94
Chapter 17: Remembering 9-11, 97
Chapter 18: Thoughts on Police Shootings, 100
Chapter 19: The Hard Witnesses, 105
Chapter 20: Friday Night Fights, 111
Chapter 21: Ted Bundy—Celebrity Slayer, 114
(4) TED BUNDY: CELEBRITY SLAYER
When I sold "The Last Murder" to the publisher, I had written over 100,000 words with three chapters left to write. The publisher told me they wanted the word count to be under 90,000. I took the knife to what I had written and cut it unmercifully, and then I collapsed the last three chapters into one. I got the word count under the limit, but discerning readers have commented that the last chapter of the book seems somewhat truncated. Yes it does. This is an abbreviated meditation that I probably would have made part of "The Last Murder" if there had been room.
(5) THE EVOLUTION OF CHESS
Years ago I was a member of a postal chess club and wrote a column for their magazine on chess history. This is one of the columns. It is a speculation on how the "game of kings" and the "king of games" evolved from a hypothetical ancestor much like tic-tac-toe to its present format.
(6) THE KILLING OF JORM PELORVIS
When I was a freshman in law school I read a short story called, if I remember correctly, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers," a sort of a meditation on the collision of the crime of cannibalism with the defense of necessity. It was written in the form of an appellate opinion on the conviction of some "speluncean explorers" for cannibalism. The story inspired me to try my hand at a speculation on the criminal responsibility of someone who killed something that walked, talked, and squawked like a human being, and was to all intents and purposes indistinguishable from a human being, but upon autopsy was determined to be something other than a human being.