The Chair for Martin Rome
By Henry Edward Helseth.
ASIN: B0007I5CI0
First published 1947.
Published by Pocket
Books.
Paperback.
Description:
Condemned killer
escapes.
Martin Rome killed a
policeman during a robbery. For this the State sentenced him to the electric
chair. But before that bleak final moment Martin Rome had business to finish
outside the jail – matters of stolen jewels and some human rats and a girl whose
very existence he denied to the detectives but whose reality for him
transcended all things. The swift, terrifying story of his mad undertaking, the
grim revelation it brought to the police and, even more grimly, to Rome itself,
is an emotional experience that leaves the reader thrilled and unnerved at the
closing page.
“Just
about the most real and convincing tough-job that has come in this season. Not
easily forgettable.”
– Saturday Review of Literature.
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