When Anthony Rathe Investigates

<p>The original Anthony Rathe stories of courtroom criminal cases appeared on American public radio syndicated by the late Jim French through his <em>Imagination Theater</em>. <strong>When Anthony Rathe Investigates</strong> continues where the radio stories finished.<br /><br />Prosecuting criminal cases <strong>barrister Anthony Rathe</strong> convinced a jury to imprison an innocent man who subsequently took his own life. Horrified at his mistake Rathe abandons his glittering legal career vowing to truly serve justice. A series of cases come his way.<br /><br />These four stories linked by how Rathe is racked with guilt over the suicide explore crime from a different angle: determination to find the truth no matter how inconvenient to the investigating officer <strong>Inspector Cook</strong>. The reader is invited to join Rathe in solving these complex mysteries.<br /><br />The first story <em>Burial for the Dead</em> exposes sordid family history that led to a murder in a church. In <em>A Question of Proof</em> Inspector Cook needs Rathe to unravel an underworld murder; in <em>Ties that Bind</em> Rathe solves a crime of passion; and in <em>The Quick and the Dead</em> modern slavery intrudes into his own personal life.</p>