Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander essays

Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander essays Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander is a mystery about Sir John Fielding in the mid 18th century. This story takes place in London and the main characters are Sir John Fielding and Jeremy Proctor. Fielding is well known in the area along with his brother Henry Fielding for being the founders of the Bow Street Runners police force. The Bow Street Runners is the very first police force in the London area and nobody has seen anything like it. Sir John is a high-ranking member in the courts and has a great reputation for giving stern punishments for crimes he knows have been committed and being sympathetic to lesser crimes. One twister to this story is that Sir John Fielding is blind yet he has an outstanding ability to solve crimes using all of his other senses. Early in the story Sir John Folding takes custody of a young boy named Jeremy Proctor. Jeremy is on the run because his father was stoned to death for the counterfeiting of money. Jeremy is captured in London and sent to the court with Sir John and he is soon released because Sir John sees that the young man has done nothing wrong. Sir John realizes that Jeremy Proctor can benefit him in his investigations by being his eyes in crimes scenes. While Jeremy becomes an orphan to the court a major incident happens. Lord Goodhope was found dead to what was believed to be suicide by a pistol. While Jeremy and Sir John were investigating the incident Jeremy tells Sir John a interesting observation that he saw at the scene. Jeremy told Sir John that when he was observing Lord Goodhope's corpse his hands were clean. In the time it was impossible for somebody to shoot a weapon without some sort of smoke leaving a stain on his or her hand and Sir John later demands an autopsy. Sir Joh ns hunch was right and the autopsy revealed that Sir John was actually poisoned. As the team investigates Lord Goodhope's life they find some revealing facts. They find out that he was extremel...