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So, I'm reading along in Turow's Personal Injuries, which I don't believe I have read before. Then towards the end of the book I come across a scene with a black judge standing in the doorway of his home with a gun in his hand. That image I recognize from Turow.

The possibilities are that I have read this book before and blanked out most of it, or Turow uses that image (and possibly that same character doing the same thing) more than once.

What say the fora?

[mickeymantle]

Hmmm.  I've been a big fan of Turow's work, although he never, in my opinion, equalled the scintillating Presumed Innocent.  Personal Injuries is one of his best, but I can't for the life of me remember a similar scene with an African-American judge (the only one I can remember is Larren Lyttle from PI).

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I don't think it was PI, which I haven't read since it first came out (when I was in college). I think it was relatively more recent. This suggests to me that I read Personal Injuries twice without remembering it at all. Thanks for answering.

[francishamit]

There is a similar scene in another legal thriller by that African American Law professor from Yale.  I don't recall  his name,the title, or much of the book, but I do recall his four million dollar advance for a first novel.  I doubt if he consciously copied it from Turow.  It's a television image and variants of it are common.