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Raymond William Postgate (6 November 1896 – 29 March 1971) was an English socialist, writer, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist, and gourmet who founded the Good Food Guide. He was a member of the Postgate family .
Verdict of Twelve is a novel by Raymond Postgate first published in 1940 about a trial by jury seen through the eyes of each of the twelve jurors as they listen to the evidence and try to reach a unanimous verdict of either "Guilty" or "Not guilty".
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Raymond W. Postgate has 33 books on Goodreads with 3281 ratings. Raymond W. Postgate’s most popular book is The Outline of History, Vol. 1 (of 2).
Raymond Postgate’s Verdict of Twelve might have put the last nail in the coffin. This twisty, brilliant short novel (originally published in 1940) follows a group of jurors who are tasked with finding an accused murderer guilty or innocent.
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Dec 22, 2017 · Raymond Postgate, Verdict of Twelve, British Library, 2018. This book is among the outstanding reissues by the British Library and Poisoned Pen Press. Postgate’s name is probably more familiar from his founding the Good Food Guide, and/or his writing about wine, than his crime fiction, of which there wasn’t very much.
Raymond William Postgate (6 November 1896 – 29 March 1971) was an English socialist, writer, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist, and gourmet who founded the Good Food Guide.
Raymond Postgate’s political sympathies lay. Postgate (1896–1971), the son of a professor, came from a wealthy family, and studied at St. John’s College, Oxford, but he rebelled against his father’s conservatism. After becoming a pacifist, he served a brief prison sentence for refusing to be conscripted; in
