LAWYERS AND THE MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE NOVEL
Scared Writless: Lawyers & Mystery Novels. While this website features books to buy, it has some interesting articles and tidbits, including Anatomy of a Murder Trial and Grand Legal Strategies. See also An Archaelogy of Myth: Profane Lawyering.
Bibliography
Pierre Bayard, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
Tzetvan Todorov, The "Two Story" Structure of Classic Detective Fiction, in The Poetics of Prose
See also Specific Authors (this website), Direct Examination (this website)