Scout Selection: Chinawoman’s Chance
Chinawoman’s Chance First California woman lawyer solves crimes. Clara Shortridge Foltz, Esq. is the first woman admitted to the State Bar of California, and it is 1884. This is the first murder case in which she both defends her client in court and then must trap the real killer, after she loses the case in a male-dominated and racist kangaroo trial. The prologue flashes forward to when her client, […]