An unhappy wife is found dead in her bed, in circumstances that point to murder. Her husband, Roderick Strood, is arrested and put on trial. But before this happens we have become intimately acquainted not only with the Stroods and their problems, but with the individual members of the jury on whose verdict Roderick's fate is to depend. We see them first in their private lives, each unaware of the others' existence; watch them enter the jury-box; and finally go with them into the jury-room and hear them debating the issue of life and death. What is the truth? And what will the verdict be?

Author Biography

Gerald Bullet was a British man of letters (1893-1958). He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet, who wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature. Bullett was born in London and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. After Cambridge Bullett began reviewing for The Times Literary Supplement and other journals, and then embarked on a career as an assiduous short-story writer and poet, small-time publisher, and editor and author of some forty published books. Bullett's 1932 detective novel I'll Tell You Everything was written jointly with J. B. Priestley. During World War II Bullett worked for the BBC in London, and radio broadcaster after the end of the War. He adapted his most popular novel The Jury as a screenplay filmed in 1956 re-named The Last Man to Hang?