The Blind Goddess

"Eileen! The blood rushing to his eyes blurred his sight, and the pavement rose up to smite him. Eileen accused of killing Dickie! What a fantastic idea! He thrust a nickel into the boy's hand, and crushing the paper into his pocket, staggered across Franklin Street to the Elm Castle. Good God! What made them think Eileen could have done anything like that?" Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was an American lawyer and writer of legal thrillers, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's injustices. Train wrote a number of novels and short stories inspired by his parallel career as a lawyer in private practice and a New York County District Attorney.