Robert Hardaway 1946

According to the University of Denver profile, Hardaway earned his BA at Amherst College in 1968, graduating cum laude, and his JD at New York University in 1971, where he made the Order of the Coif. He served four years in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps, handling civil claims and working as both prosecutor and defense lawyer. Back in Colorado he practiced civil litigation in Denver, worked as a deputy district attorney in Arapahoe County, and served as a deputy public defender handling hundreds of felony cases, death penalty cases among them.

He joined the University of Denver College of Law as a clinical supervisor and later became a tenured professor, teaching civil procedure and evidence. He has been a visiting professor at Hastings and at Washington University. The profile says he has written fourteen published books on law and public policy, 29 articles and more than 75 newspaper opinion pieces, and that his recent work includes docudramas and law-related fiction and novels. Open Library gives his birth year as 1946.

The four books we publish split into one trial and three adventures, yet they share a taste for events where law, money and secrets collide. Alienation of Affection stays in Denver in 1911, while Lily Queen moves to New York after the Triangle fire. Papyrus goes to ancient Egypt and Nefertiti, and Six Queens Naked is catalogued as historical adventure. A courtroom habit runs through them: each story asks what happened, who knew it and who will pay. Real events anchor two of the books, the Richthofen Castle case and the fire. The others borrow history as a backdrop for invented plots. A fifth book, Dreamlet, has no description on file, so we say nothing about its story.

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