Overview
Tutt and Mr. Tutt is a legal comedy built around the peculiar relationship between two lawyers whose professional rivalry is mixed with reluctant respect and sharp personal contrast.
This title is catalogued in Classics & Literature. Its reading profile is Medium and Moderate, with themes including literature, ideas, politics, humor, psychology.
One-Page Summary
Tutt and Mr. Tutt is a legal comedy built around the peculiar relationship between two lawyers whose professional rivalry is mixed with reluctant respect and sharp personal contrast. Arthur Train wrote from inside the world of American law, and his fiction often turns courtroom procedure into character comedy. The central pleasure is watching legal knowledge become a practical tool for getting around obstacles that seem impossible from the outside. A case may look morally straightforward until the lawyers reveal a hidden technical problem; a client may tell one story while the evidence suggests another; and professional rivalry can become a game of strategic intelligence.
The courtroom gives the book its structure, but the real subject is the psychology of lawyers: ambition, pride, loyalty, skepticism, and the satisfaction of finding a clever way through a complicated problem. Train also makes law accessible by showing its human absurdity. Lawyers are not distant experts; they are people who argue, bluff, improvise, and occasionally discover that the letter of the law does not match common sense. The result is a lively introduction to an older style of legal fiction, where the thrill comes from watching a mind work against rules that everyone else assumed were fixed.
Key Themes
Literature: This title is tagged with literature as one of its main themes.
Ideas: This title is tagged with ideas as one of its main themes.
Politics: This title is tagged with politics as one of its main themes.
Humor: This title is tagged with humor as one of its main themes.
Psychology: This title is tagged with psychology as one of its main themes.