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...which may not be an endorsement, since Turow's plodding prose can be a way not of passing time but doing it. Still, a few lawyer novels pass minimal standards as survival gear. For the next time you're sentenced to 7 to 10 years between planes at O'Hare, here's a sampling of legal thrillers...
...TAKING A LITTLE ACAPULCO vacation without the children. When they're left behind with no adult supervision, though, it's a crime. David and Sharon Schoo of St. Charles, Illinois, found that out last week on returning from nine childless days in Mexico. The couple was arrested at O'Hare Airport and charged with felony child abandonment, cruelty to children and misdemeanor reckless endangerment for leaving alone daughters Nicole, 9, and Diana, 4. The girls were left with a refrigerator full of food and a note full of instructions -- but no information on how to contact their parents. The children...
WRITER: DAVID HARE...
...lines adapted to read "The South" instead of "Messina." This leads to baffling conundrums: where do you find the balconies and gardens on a riverboat? Why are war-weary veterans holidaying on the water with the governor of Messina? What kind of steamer comes complete with a crypt? This hare-brained Steamboat Willie hybrid smacks of direction for direction's sake...
...Minutes went to check out the scene and meet the personalities that so often intimidate passers-by. Unfortunately it was raining on Saturday. And all we could find were Izzy, his friend Andrew and a pair of pink-robed hare krishnas...