Jack, Knave and Fool.(Law and literature)(Book Review) From: LawNow | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Normey, Rob | COPYRIGHT 2004 Legal Resource Centre of Alberta Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Jack, Knave and Fool is a recent installment of the Sir John Fielding mystery series. The real-life John Fielding was a remarkable London magistrate in eighteenth-century England. He was a brother to Henry Fielding, the creator of Tom Jones. Henry and John were magistrates at the Bow Street Court until John took over the caseload from a dying Henry. One of the chief virtues of Bruce Alexander's series is its window on London society in the Georgian Age. We are given vivid descripti...