· About the Author. RAYMOND POSTGATE (–) was a socialist journalist and historian, and founder of the Good Food Guide. He also wrote highly regarded detective novels; Somebody at the Door and Verdict of www.doorway.ru: Sourcebooks. Verdict of Twelve (British Library Crime Classics) - Kindle edition by Postgate, Raymond, Edwards, Martin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Verdict of /5(61). Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate is a story about the twelve members forming the Jury of a case the trial of that case itself told as an old fashioned British courtroom drama. The crime itself is revealed one third into the book thus keeps up the suspense. It’s divided into four parts/5().
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Raymond Postgate. Raymond Postgate was born in Cambridge in , the eldest son of the classical scholar Professor J.P. Postgate. He was educated at St. John's College, Oxford. During the First World War he was a conscientious objector and was jailed for two weeks in He married Daisy Lansbury, the daughter of George Lansbury, pacifist. 'Verdict of Twelve' is more than that. It's true that a book that uses a Saki story ('Sredni Vashtar') as a significant clue was always going to win my heart. It's true too that the description of Raymond Postgate in the back blurb "a socialist journalist and historian, and founder of the Good Food Guide" who "also wrote highly regarded detective novels", prejudices me entirely in his favour. Verdict of Twelve is a novel by Raymond Postgate first published in about a trial by jury seen through the eyes of each of the twelve jurors as they listen to the evidence and try to reach a unanimous verdict of either "Guilty" or "Not guilty".
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