From Goodreads: Identical twins can cause all kinds of difficulty when someone is attempting to decide who is who, not only when both are alive but also when one has died. Which one has died? How do you prove it? It gets even worse when somebody is charged with murdering the one who died. Did he kill the one that everyone thought he killed? What if he didn’t murder either one? Sometimes “is” just plain isn’t!

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This is a very interesting novelette dwelling on a case of mistaken identity.  It takes place in a courtroom, opening right up into the action and pushing all background information aside, which the reader later gleans from the story as it unfolds.  It’s one of those stories where the reader can’t help but root for the defendant and feel triumphant as the defense lawyer wipes the floor with the prosecutor and, in this case, the sheriff as well.  It’s hard to pinpoint the time in which the story takes place, leaving it all up to the readers’ imagination.  For me, though, I’m thinking it’s the mid 1950s based on some of the evidence, but I could be wrong.  Read it and find out. Four stars.

I received a copy of this novelette from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.