# The Turn of the Balance

by [Brand Whitlock](https://localbooks.app/authors/brand-whitlock)

- Genres: [Fiction littéraire](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/literary-fiction)
- Set in: [Toledo, Ohio, États-Unis](https://localbooks.app/places/us/ohio/toledo)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1907

## Description

Written while Brand Whitlock was the reform mayor of Toledo, this long novel takes on the criminal justice system of its day: the story of Archie Koerner, a young ex-soldier drawn into crime, and of the wealthy Ward family, whose lives cross his in the courts and prisons of a Midwestern city. One of the major protest novels of the Progressive Era.

## Where to buy

- [Project Gutenberg (ebook)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40398)

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