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Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Pudd’nhead Wilson
lawyer uses fingerprint evidence to win his client’s acquittal and expose the true murderer. [Am. Lit.: Mark Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson; Benét, 824]
See : Sleuthing


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3) (Here the form and function of what we might call "Hannah's plot," following Carolyn Porter, resonates with that of Twain's Roxana in Pudd'nhead Wilson.
In this sense, the book has more in common with Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson than most contemporary satire, which merely preaches to the converted.
Commentary on Pudd'nhead Wilson refers to Twain's introduction of fingerprinting to detective lore.
 
 
 
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