The Return of The Great Brain [antikvár]

CHAPTER ONE The Adenville Academy DURING THE FIRST WEEK of August in the year 1898 a trial was held in Adenville, Utah. The defendant was my brother, Tom Fitzgerald, alias The Great Brain. He was only twelve years old, but he was charged with being a confidence man, a swindler, a crook, and a blackmailer. The judge was Harold Vickers, who was sixteen. And I guess I must have been the youngest district attorney to ever try a case, because I was only ten years old. I hated to put my brother on trial, but it was something the kids in Adenville should have done a long time before we did. Tom, with his great brain and his money-loving heart had been swindling us kids since he was eight years