Project Gutenberg 2025-05-31 Public domain in the USA. 236 Martin, Stuart 1882 29010298 Only seven were hanged $aNew York :$bHarper & Brothers Publishers, $c1929. Al Haines "Only Seven Were Hanged" by Stuart Martin is a crime novel written in the early 20th century. Framed as a sharp debate over capital punishment, it follows a Criminal Court judge and a mysterious waiter inside the exclusive Clue Club as they trade real-case narratives to test whether death sentences can ever be just. The stories unfold as dueling proofs, blending courtroom logic, moral philosophy, and twist-laden crime tales. The opening sets the scene on Christmas Eve at the Clue Club, where the chairman-judge presides and a substitute waiter quietly subverts proceedings. After the club affirms its support for capital punishment, the waiter interrupts, drugs the members into unconsciousness, and challenges the judge: for each case the judge proves deserving of death, one member will be revived; for each unjust case, one remains under. The judge first cites the chilling murder by Ammar Baddan, a Tamil who calmly admits killing an innkeeper; the waiter counters with an honor-and-religion motive that recasts the act within a different code. The waiter’s own case follows: he argues that John Davis, hanged for drowning his former partner Lorry Black, was framed—then reveals he is Black, alive, having staged his “death.” The judge, shaken but resolute, begins a second example about Abe Lammie, a ruthless burglar dubbed “The Mole,” as the duel of stories—and stakes—intensifies. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250527225208martin 1929 US Reading ease score: 83.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories Criminals -- Fiction Judges -- Fiction Capital punishment -- Fiction PR Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels 422953 2025-09-30T06:48:00.078551 text/html 400204 2025-05-31T14:13:13 text/html 274318 2025-09-30T06:48:04.851507 application/epub+zip 280203 2025-09-30T06:48:00.798519 application/epub+zip 226246 2025-09-30T06:48:00.452512 application/epub+zip 394433 2025-09-30T06:48:07.980479 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 379642 2025-09-30T06:48:04.482497 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 391589 2025-09-30T06:47:59.064526 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 371865 2025-05-31T14:13:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16094 2025-09-30T06:48:08.115463 application/rdf+xml 15049 2025-09-30T06:48:00.541506 image/jpeg 2348 2025-09-30T06:48:00.497517 image/jpeg 429458 2025-09-30T06:48:00.115541 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog