After a lawyer gets disbared, he goes off to write a book about his experience. He meets a man who lets him read his manuscript. The man dies and the lawyer passes the book off as his. Just when the book becomes a big success. He gets arrested for the true life murders of the five lawyers in his book. He then finds himself, trying to prove that he is innocent of the murders. Written by Anonymous Louisiana criminal attorney Lawson Russell sudden grows a 'conscience' and turns against his umpteenth rich, guilty client, Thurman Parks III. the result is judge judge Wiley Banning declares a mistrial and naive Russel is disbarred far life. After years of menial work on a fishing boat, an old man shows him a brilliant manuscript about the perfect murder on five lawyers and dies from a heart-attack. Russel burns the original and gets rich by publishing the instant-bestseller as his own. But someone sent a copy to New Orleans detective Clifford Dubose, who realizes all five murders are real, and only the killer knew all the details.
