Honorable Judge Dummus

In Tumble Fork, Judge Bartholomew Dummus is brilliant, baffling, and famously "e;three bricks shy of a load."e; He consults mules, distrusts commas, and issues rulings that sound foolish until they leave crooked men exposed. Vesta Raye, a beautiful, sharp-tongued Black woman tired of being called trouble for defending herself, has no patience for another man trying to handle her life. But when Dum...