Lawrence M. Friedman

Biography

Senior Professor of law and legal history at Stanford University.

Where to find Lawrence M. Friedman online

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Series

The Frank May Chronicles
Frank May is a lawyer in San Mateo, California. He is no criminal defense lawyer, and he shirks from murder cases. But they find him anyway, and somehow he gets involved despite his better judgment. From Stanford law professor Lawrence Friedman.
Dead in the Park
Price: $5.99 USD.
An Unnatural Death
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The Book Club Murder
Price: $5.99 USD.
Death of a One-Sided Man
Price: $5.99 USD.
Who Killed Maggie Swift?
Price: $5.99 USD.
A Heavenly Death
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Books

The Red Kimono
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 69,700. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2020 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Frank May's practice is estate planning, and murder cases are way out of his line. But when his client, Stanford law prof Peter Prosser, is murdered, Frank becomes deeply entangled in a violent death. Prosser had been (badly) writing a detective novel; Frank has the only copy of the manuscript, which may hold the key to the murder. Why does life mimic the book? Where is the crucial last chapter?
A Body in the Yard
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 74,520. Language: English. Published: January 22, 2018 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Frank May's law practice is mostly estate planning. Nothing is further from his mind than murder ... but mysterious deaths somehow seem to pursue him. This time, it's the body of a woman, murdered and hidden on the grounds of the home in Los Altos Hills, California, owned by a new, young client, Freddy Lucas. Freddy's lost mother is the key to his possible fortune, but death acts first.
A Body in the House
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 61,470. Language: English. Published: January 9, 2017 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
Frank May is, as always, reluctant to get involved in murder cases. But when his young client, Margot, comes back from vacation and finds a woman's corpse in her house, Frank is drawn in anyway. Who was this woman? When another murder occurs—on the campus of Stanford University—you wonder: are the two deaths connected? And does a Hungarian violinist have anything to do with all this?
The Late Doctor Savage
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 73,010. Language: English. Published: September 19, 2016 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
Dr. Langley Savage turns up dead in a hotel room in Palo Alto. As the lawyer for Langley's estranged daughter Ashley, Frank May is reluctantly drawn into the mysteries that surround the life and death of Langley Savage--each mystery with many surprising twists. Among these is why he's set up a millionaire's trust for Ashley, and where that money came from. Chief among them: who killed Langley?
Dead in the Park
Series: The Frank May Chronicles. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 60,690. Language: English. Published: September 21, 2015 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Frank May is a private practice lawyer in San Mateo, California, and he doesn't want to get involved with an unidentified dead body in the park. He is no criminal lawyer and murder is not his game. But it finds him, via a client whose name and address are inexplicably found on a scrap of paper found on the corpse in the park. The more he tries to figure out why, the more the mystery deepens.
Death of a Schemer
Series: The Frank May Chronicles. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 73,990. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2015 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Dead clients are an essential part of Frank May's estates practice, but these are, for almost everybody, quite natural deaths. Yet somehow, through some quirk of fate, unnatural deaths seem to plague Frank’s clients and those close to them. And he gets drawn in. Andrew Wright, a schemer if there ever was one, was not exactly a client. But when he's murdered, Frank is on the spot. The wrong spot.
A Heavenly Death
Series: The Frank May Chronicles, Book 6. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 63,270. Language: English. Published: October 3, 2014 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
New in The Frank May Chronicles, this book joins many others by Stanford law professor Lawrence M. Friedman that follow the adventures of middle-aged lawyer Frank May. He is back and more hesitant than ever to get involved. But a mystery finds him anyway, too bizarre to ignore. Many people believe in life after death, but how many believe in murder after death? Or the truth explained from heaven?
Who Killed Maggie Swift?
Series: The Frank May Chronicles, Book 5. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 60,820. Language: English. Published: March 25, 2014 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Frank May practices law the safe, routine way: wills, trusts, business law. At least that's the way he wants it.... But clients and life don't always oblige. Frank avoids murder cases like most people avoid the dentist. That's not so easy to do when a dead body shows up during his routine appointment for a teeth cleaning, and he is thrust into an investigation. Can he get to the root of it?
Death of a One-Sided Man
Series: The Frank May Chronicles, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 59,070. Language: English. Published: April 20, 2013 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Nonfiction » Law » Estates & Trusts
There’s more than one unsavory side to the family Mobius. Attorney Frank May has front row seats to the quirks of the Mobius dead and would-be heirs. One, at least, was murdered in his squalid San Francisco home, sitting on a fortune that appears to be left to a cult. To untangle the estate, reluctant sleuth Frank will have to solve the murder mystery. By Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Friedman.
The Book Club Murder
Series: The Frank May Chronicles, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 61,170. Language: American English. Published: August 27, 2012 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Frank May hates trouble, as a lawyer and as a guy. It likes him just fine. For someone who practices wills law because it's far from the scene of murder and mayhem, he has a knack for being caught up in it anyway. Which is why he thought he was fortune's friend the night his wife stayed home from her book club meeting. Someone was murdered there. Frank would prefer to stay out of it but cannot.
An Unnatural Death
Series: The Frank May Chronicles, Book 2. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 66,730. Language: English. Published: April 6, 2012 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Nonfiction » Law » Wills
Frank May practices law, but just the safe kind--writing wills. He does not expect to be entangled in suspicious deaths, family secrets, and police business. But a series of odd wills, and new relatives discovered, drag him into the world he'd avoided. To probate the estate, Frank will have to solve a series of mysteries, including possible murder and a husband 60 years younger than his dead wife.
Contract Law in America: A Social and Economic Case Study
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 121,710. Language: English. Published: September 18, 2011 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Nonfiction » Law » Legal theory, Nonfiction » Law » Business & commercial law
Contract law as applied in the real world and not just in the books. A classic study of the social and economic realities of commercial and trade law, told through cases and rich historical analysis. Comparing law over three distinct historical eras, Friedman shows that contracts law is more contingent and varying than traditional legal analysis suggests. Adds new foreword by Stewart Macaulay.
Death of a Wannabe
Series: The Frank May Chronicles, Book 8. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 79,650. Language: English. Published: August 1, 2011 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Frank May practices law but only the bland kind--writing wills, pushing papers. Not a seedy life in criminal law. But a dead body wakes you up to places you don't want to be. A call from frantic client Barney near the corpse of his wannabe-actress wife drags Frank in it. Only he really thinks Barney innocent. To see how, Frank will have to use his head. By Stanford law professor Lawrence Friedman.
The Human Rights Culture: A Study in History and Context
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 93,180. Language: English. Published: May 23, 2011 by Quid Pro, LLC. Categories: Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Civil & human rights, Nonfiction » Law » International law
Thoughtful and provocative exploration of the human rights movement and its development as a sociological and historical trend. Unlike the typical legal or philosophical approach to human rights, this books asks why it pervades modern culture. Applies the analysis to issues of women and minorities, language and culture, privacy, religion, individualism and state sovereignty. Includes references.

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