Convict 99
Subtitle: a true story of penal servitude
By: by M. C. Leighton and Robert Leighton. With eight illustrations by Stanley L. Wood
Publisher: Brentano's
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: False imprisonment; Fiction; Prisoners
Description: An anti-prison tract in which the hero, Laurence Gray, is framed by a rival in love on false charges of embezzelment and murder. Sent to Grimley Prison as Convict "99" on a life sentence, Laurence suffers various indignities before escaping and proving his innocence.
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