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writing as: First Edition 1962 Fawcett / Gold Medal Books Greenwich, Connecticut Publisher code: S1240 Paperback Cover illustrator unknown 144 pages Price: $0.35 Notes The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1963 Frederick Muller paperback edition. Cover illustrator unknown.
Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
Arrived U.S. 1912. Citizenship granted 1919.
Rejected for military service World War I for record of petty offenses. Married 1922.
Daughter, Helen, born 1931, married 1955.
Sentenced to 5 years in 1924 for extortion. Paroled 1927.
Sentenced to 8 years in 1932 for manslaughter. Paroled 1938.
Sentenced to 25 years to life in 1943 for kidnaping.
They were giving him one more chance to live inside the law, one more chance to keep away from crime. His last chance, and if he muffed it there would be nothing left but a bare cell in which he could wait for death . . . |
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