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Caryl Chessman: The Face of Justice

Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey, 1957

* 1921, † 1960

Prison: San Quentin. California, USA (Map)

The Face of Justice had to be written in secret. It had to be transcribed in the dead of night in a race against time and the executioner. Each day the manuscript had to be hidden to prevent its discovery when prison officials searched the author and his cell on San Quentin's Death Row. Finally it was completed and spirited from the prison by means that have not yet been discovered. But each page of the manuscript bears the author's fingerprints and signature ...

In this, his latest book, Caryl Chessman, completes his trilogy on the causes of crime, the treatment of criminals, the ineffectuality of capital punishment.

Other prison writings by the author:

• Cell 2455, Death Row Perma Books, New York, 1960 (1954)
• Trial By Ordeal Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 1955
• The Kid Was A Killer