Трагедия по закону

Chlen Vysokogo suda Dzhastis Barber predsedatelʹstvuet na samykh serʹeznykh prot͡sessakh I͡Uzhnoĭ Anglii. On vynes mnozhestvo prigovorov - no kto iz osuzhdennykh im prestupnikov ili ikh blizkikh prislal emu anonimnoe pisʹmo s ugrozami? Ponachalu Barber ne vosprinimaet ėto vserʹez - odnako vskore emu lishʹ chudom udaetsi͡a izbezhatʹ smerti. Polit͡sii͡a bezdeĭstvuet. I togda za delo beretsi͡a detektiv-li͡ubitelʹ Frėnsis Pettigri͡u - chelovek, u kotorogo redkiĭ dar zadavatʹ nuzhnym li͡udi͡am nuzhnye voprosy. Vot tolʹko uspeet li on uznatʹ, kto khochet izbavitʹsi͡a ot sudʹi, poka ubiĭt͡sa ne osushchestvil zadumannoe?

Justice Barber, a member of the High Court, presides over the most serious trials in Southern England. He has passed many sentences, but which of the criminals he convicted or their relatives sent him an anonymous threatening letter? At first, Barber does not take this seriously, but soon he only miraculously manages to avoid death. The police are inactive. And then amateur detective Francis Pettigrew gets down to business - a man who has a rare gift for asking the right people the right questions. But would he have time to find out who wanted to get rid of the judge before the killer carried out his plan?