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• Phileas Fox, Attorney (Notre Dame, IN: The Ave Maria, c1909), by Anna T. Sadlier
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• Stories and Articles (2 volumes; Baltimore: Privately printed, 1917), by Arthur Webster Machen, ed. by Arthur W. Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Witness for the Defence, by A. E. W. Mason (Gutenberg text)
• The confessions of Artemas Quibble : being the ingenuous and unvarnished history of Artemas Quibble, esquire, one-time practitioner in the New York criminal courts, together with an account of the divers wiles, tricks, sophistries, technicalities and sundry artifices of himself and others of the fraternity, commonly yclept "shysters" or "shyster lawyers" / (New York : Scribner, 1926, [1911]), by Arthur Train (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Romantic stories of the legal profession. (London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, [1883?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine points of the law / (London ; New York : John Lane Publishers, 1903), by Wilfrid S. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales by a barrister / (London : C. Edmonds, 1847), by Frederick Liardet (page images at HathiTrust)
• T. Thorndyke, attorney-at-law; the romance of a young lawyer, (Boston, Mass., The C. M. Clark publishing company, 1907), by Herbert Irvin Goss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of Rainbow and Lucky / (New York : Harper, 1860), by Jacob Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Two birthdays, or, Rosa and her father. (Boston : H.A. Young, 1869), by Madeline Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humorous story of Farmer Bumpkin's lawsuit / (London : Waterlow Bros. & Layton, 1896), by Richard Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What is the verdict? (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1944), by Fred Louis Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales by a barrister. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1844), by Frederick Liardet (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of legal novels. (Northwestern univ. law pub. assoc., c1908), by John Henry Wigmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• By advice of counsel : being adventures of the celebrated firm of Tutt & Tutt, attorneys & counsellors at law / (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Arthur Cheney Train, Scribner Press. prt, and Charles Scribner's Sons. pbl, illust. by Arthur William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chain of evidence / (Philadelphia ; London : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912), by Carolyn Wells, Washington Square Press. prt, and J.B. Lippincott Company. pbl, illust. by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Gayle Hoskins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The tragedy of a widow's third / (Boston : Irving P. Fox, 1898), by Anna Christy Fall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Butterfly, the bride : essays on law, narrative, and the family / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Carol Weisbrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin, by Hall Caine (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Useless Bugbreeders, by James Stamers (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Question of Identity, by Frank Riley, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Charing Cross Mystery, by J. S. Fletcher (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Executor: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine vol. LXXXIX, by Mrs. Oliphant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Community Property, by Alfred Coppel (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Power-House, by John Buchan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Saintsbury Affair, by Lily A. Long, illust. by J. V. McFall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eversti Chabert (in Finnish), by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by Huvi Vuorinen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mrs Peixada, by Henry Harland (Gutenberg ebook)
• License to Steal, by Louis Newman, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Marryers: A History Gathered from a Brief of the Honorable Socrates Potter, by Irving Bacheller (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Servant of the Public, by Anthony Hope, illust. by Harold Percival (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lead of Honour, by Norval Richardson, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spider's Web, by Reginald Wright Kauffman, illust. by Jean de Paleologue (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Young Man's Year, by Anthony Hope (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Desperate Voyage, by E. F. Knight (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Window at the White Cat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Case and Exceptions: Stories of Counsel and Clients, by Frederick Trevor Hill (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Queen Against Owen, by Allen Upward (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit, by Richard Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bardell v. Pickwick, by Charles Dickens and Percy Fitzgerald (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letter of the Law, by Alan Edward Nourse (Gutenberg ebook)
• ...Or Your Money Back, by Randall Garrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Half A Chance, by Frederic Stewart Isham, illust. by Herman Pfeifer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sowing and reaping (1872), by E. A St. Obyn and A. L. O. E. (page images at Florida)
• His own master (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1889), by Robina F Hardy, illust. by Robina F Hardy (page images at Florida)

• Mortmain (8-story collection; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928), by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Blind Goddess (c1926), by Arthur Train (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Randolph Mason, Corrector of Destinies (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923), by Melville Davisson Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• By Advice of Counsel: Being Adventures of the Celebrated Firm of Tutt and Tutt, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, by Arthur Train, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Corrector of Destinies: Being Tales of Randolph Mason as Related by His Private Secretary, Courlandt Parks (New York: E. J. Clode, c1908), by Melville Davisson Post (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908), by Melville Davisson Post
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• McAllister and His Double (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Arthur Train, illust. by F. C. Yohn and Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tales out of court / (New York : F.A. Stokes Co., c1920), by Frederick Trevor Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• As it was in the beginning / (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1921), by Arthur Cheney Train and Macmillan Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction goes to court : favorite stories of lawyers and the law selected by famous lawyers / (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977, c1954), ed. by Albert P. Blaustein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The final verdict : six stories of men and women / (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1915), by Sidney L. Nyburg, Washington Square Press. prt, and J.B. Lippincott Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason, by Melville Davisson Post (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Man of Last Resort; Or, The Clients of Randolph Mason, by Melville Davisson Post (Gutenberg ebook)

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