Pudd’nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
214 pages~4 hrs
“One cradle swap, two stolen lives, and a secret that a fingerprint will finally reveal.”
When two infants are swapped at birth to escape the shackles of slavery, a lifelong deception sets the stage for a shocking murder trial. An eccentric lawyer must use the revolutionary science of fingerprinting to unmask an impostor and challenge a town’s deepest prejudices.
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