Crime and Punishment #44

Herbert Frawley arrives at Stockton Penitentiary as a quiet, sullen man haunted by a string of crimes—from petty theft to murder—and consumed by a burning need to escape on his own terms. When a partner betrays him during a robbery and subsequent escape attempts end in violence and failure, Frawley becomes convinced that independence is his only path to freedom, so he begins secretly digging a tunnel beneath the prison walls, night after grueling night. This is the strange and obsessive story of a man determined to shape his own destiny, no matter the cost.

Arthur Knight thought he could outsmart everyone—using his position at the Newtown Bank to cover his embezzlement by making a deal with criminals—but when a bank examiner arrives to audit the books, he's forced to go through with a robbery that spirals into murder and mayhem. As Knight flees with the robbers across state lines, a fatal miscalculation on a dangerous back road becomes the real reckoning, proving that crime has a way of catching up with you no matter how carefully you plan.

When a borrowed suit and a case of mistaken identity lead to tragedy, Art Rockwell finds himself entangled in a murder investigation that threatens to drag him down alongside his volatile roommate Pete Holst. As detectives close in and the pieces of the crime begin to fall into place, Art must decide whether loyalty to his friend is worth facing the electric chair.