The Chair for Martin Rome
The Chair for Martin Rome
by Henry Edward Helseth.
by Henry Edward Helseth.
ASIN: B0007I5CI0
First published 1947.
Published by Pocket Books.
Paperback.
First published 1947.
Published by Pocket Books.
Paperback.
Description:
Condemned killer escapes.
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.