Convict 99;
a true story of penal servitude,
by M. C. Leighton and Robert Leighton. With eight illustrations by Stanley L. Wood.

Description

Main Author

Leighton, Marie Connor, 1865-1941

Related Names

Wood, Stanley L., 1866-1928, illustrator.
Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934, author.
Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York, Brentano's, 1900.

Subjects

Prisoners > Prisoners / England > Prisoners / England / Fiction.
False imprisonment > False imprisonment / England > False imprisonment / England / Fiction.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) > Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) / United States > Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) / United States / 1900-1910.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) > Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) / United States > Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) / United States / 1900-1910.

Summary

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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