Mr Justice Harbottle

From the files of Dr Hesselius

 

read by David Collings

directed by Reggie Oliver

music by Leigh Odlin

 

The Honourable Elijah Harbottle, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, bloated and pitiless administrator of the hangman's noose, overreaches himself in condemning to death his mistress's former husband and, in doing so, sets himself against the sinister forces of The High Court of Appeal, a court that "sits day and night and never rises", in "the Kingdom of Life and Death".

 

Together with the audio book comes an eBook essay by Jim Rockhill examining the origins and legacy of the story.