Chapter 20

• Explain what is meant by these expressions:

  • the witness protection programme (p.285)

  • to handle someone with velvet gloves (p.285)

• Answer the following questions:

1. What kind of person was judge Harry Roosevelt?

2. Why didn’t Harry Roosevelt like “the smell” of the whole case? Why did he have “an uneasy feeling”?

Chapter 21

• Explain what is meant by these words and expressions:

  • delinquent (p. 290)

*behaving in a way that is illegal or that society does not approve of (правонарушитель, преступник)

• a stuffed rabbit (p. 292);

• to be on smb’s turf (p. 298)

*an area that you think of as being your own

• Answer the following questions and do the tasks:

1. Describe the day when Mark was taken into custody.

2. Present the scene, which took place between the Sways and the two cops, in detail.

3. How did Mark’s room in the detention center look like?

Chapter 22

• Explain what is meant by these words and expressions:

  • obituary (p. 303)

*a report in the newspaper about the life of someone who has just died

• a juicy tidbit (p. 303)

*a small piece of interesting information (пикантная новость)

• a hostage (p. 305)

*someone who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands

• to flip through smth (p. 306)

*to look at a book, magazine etc quickly

• directory (p. 305-306)

*a book with a list of names, usually arranged in alphabetical order

• Answer the following questions:

  1. What was special and unusual about Romey’s service?

  2. What was Mark’s revenge upon Klickman?

Chapter 23

• Explain what is meant by this expression:

  • an expedited hearing (p. 311)

*a process that is made to happen more quickly

• Answer the following questions:

  1. What were Reggie’s first steps after she’d learnt about Mark’s being in custody?

  2. What new facts about the judge did you get from the chapter?

  3. What did Reggie advise Mark to say in the courtroom? Why couldn’t she say: ”Lie, Mark, lie!”?

Chapter 24

• Explain what is meant by these words and expressions:

  • an alleged delinquent ( p. 333), allegations

*smth that is supposed to be true although there is no proof that it actually is true – предполагаемый; заявления;

• to remain in custody (p. 333)

*to be kept in prison by the police until you go to court – находиться под следствием;

• to play gofer (p. 337)

*to act as someone who carries messages for their employer – быть на побегушках;

• to grant the motion (p. 337)

*if a judge in a law court accepts a suggestion by one of the lawyers – принять предложение;

• pure hearsay (p. 348)

*something that you have heard about from other people but do not know to be true or correct - слухи.

• Answer the following questions:

  1. How did judge Harry Roosevelt manage to tame Fink?

  2. What did Sergeant Hardy testify about?

  3. Why was Fink sure that Clifford knew something about the exact location of the body?