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Framed for manslaughter after he breaks a story about city corruption, reporter Frank Ross is sure he₂ll prove his innocence. But that₂s not how the system works at Rocky Point Penitentiary. There, cellblock guards are vicious, the jute-mill labor is endless, and the powers Ross fought on the outside conspire to keep him in. Frank₂s hope has turned to hopelessness. And he₂s starting to crack.
2) The big shot
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"Who wants to hire a three-time loser? No one, so Duke Berne falls in with crooks planning an armored car heist. Then an ex-flame, and the gun she levels at his heart, persuades him not to take part. But once a con, always a suspect [and] the law frames him for the crime and sends him to the Big House. Just don't expect Duke Berne to be on the inside long"--Container.
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The range-riding rascal of the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma Kid is the territory's most hunted outlaw, wanted dead or alive. So when the Kid's black-clad enemy Whip McCord turns Tulsa into a den of corruption, leading citizen John Kincaid announces plans to clean up the town. Framing the old man for murder, McCord has him sentenced to hang, while the Kid, who's secretly Kincaid's son, risks his own neck as he races to Tulsa to see that justice is...
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Susan Starrling sees something no child should ever see: her stepmother's murder. Traumatized and withdrawn, she cannot help her imprisoned father, who's been wrongly convicted of the crime and faces execution, and she retains only the troubling image of the killer's shadow. Susan becomes the charge of two people: a dedicated psychiatrist, who resolves to heal Susan and unlock the child's dark secret, and Susan's worried Aunt Dell, who would rather...
6) Gallant sons
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High school sleuths prove solving a murder is mere child's play in this fast-paced whodunit. When his gambler father is wrongly convicted of murder, Johnny is determined to prove his dad's innocence. Following a series of clues that point to the real killer, Johnny and pals decided to stage a play that will force a confession and drop the curtain on a murderer.
7) Night court
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Judge Moffett has turned the New York City night court over which he presides into a well-oiled machine of graft and corruption. Fearing exposure from the investigation of crusading reformer Judge Osgood, Moffett sends his mistress into hiding with evidence of his crimes. This move places the dangerous information on a collision course with a young mother and her good-hearted cabdriver husband, which will potentially destroy the innocent couple₂s...
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