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Sober as a Judge

1958 novel

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ109238055 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sober as a Judge is a 1958 comedy novel by the British writer Henry Cecil. It is the last in a trilogy that began with Brothers in Law.

Synopsis

Now a high court judge, Roger Thursby presides over a series of unusual cases.

References

Bibliography

Jacob, Merle & Apple, Hope. To be Continued: An Annotated Guide to Sequels. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Editorial summary

“Sober as a Judge” enters the record as 1958 novel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sober, Judge and novel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2000, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sober, Judge and novel.
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Why this record matters

“Sober as a Judge” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sober, Judge and novel provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109238055. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 2000 and 2015.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sober as a Judge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.