No Bail for the Judge is 1952 comedy crime novel by the British writer Henry Cecil.

[1] It was the second novel of Cecil, himself a judge, and along with Brothers in Law is one of his best known.

Alfred Hitchcock planned to make a film out of the novel, starring Audrey Hepburn, in 1959.

[2] A High Court judge finds himself accused of murdering a prostitute.

To clear his name his daughter enlists the help of a criminal who organises an investigation amongst the streetwalkers of London to find the real culprit.