title: Thug Notes: A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature
author: Sparky Sweets PhD
description: Praise for the hit YouTube series:<br /><br />"A deliciously executed example of the application of street sensibility to high-culture, high-concept areas." <i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />"Move over,Cliff, there's a new Notes-master in town." <i>The Huffington Post</i><br /><br />"If your eyes glaze over in class and your book reports are cribbed from Wikipedia, you might not need summer school . . . you might just need<i>Thug Notes</i>." MTV<br /><br /><i>"Thug Notes </i>is taking wonderful literature and making it understandable, embraceable and making it usable.<i>" PBS-TV, Tavis Smiley<br /><br /></i>"<i>Thug Notes</i> delivers the innovation needed in education." <i>The Tampa Bay Times</i><br /><br />"<i>Thug Notes</i> takes literary classics out of the academic ghetto." <i>The Daily Dot</i>
zlib_text: # The Deep Blue Alibi
  
  ## Paul Levine
  
  ## (2020 Edition)
  
  ## Nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award
  
  
  # Contents
  
  [THE DEEP BLUE ALIBI](text00004.html#c1)
  
  [“KILL ALL THE LAWYERS” SNEAK PREVIEW](text00072.html#c68)
  
  [“TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD” SNEAK PREVIEW](text00075.html)
  
  [“BUM RAP” SNEAK PREVIEW](text00076.html)
  
  [“CHEATER’S GAME” SNEAK PREVIEW](text00077.html)
  
  [BOOKS BY PAUL LEVINE](text00078.html)
  
  [ABOUT THE AUTHOR](text00079.html)
  
  [COPYRIGHT PAGE](text00080.html#c72)
  
  
  # BOOKS BY PAUL LEVINE
  
  ## JAKE LASSITER SERIES
  
  _“Jake Lassiter is great fun.” –_ New York Times
  
  _“Lassiter is attractive, funny, savvy and brave.”_ – Chicago Tribune
  
  _“Take one part John Grisham, two parts Carl Hiaasen, throw in a dash of John
  D. MacDonald, and voila! You’ve got Jake Lassiter.” –_ Tulsa World
  
  [TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003SHDUD6/paulevaultweb-20)
  : Linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter begins to believe that his surgeon
  client is innocent of malpractice…but guilty of 