Mongo's Back in Town, Harper Novel by E Richard Johnson, 1st Edition, Hardcover

Mongo's Back in Town, Harper Novel of Surprise by E Richard Johnson, 1st Edition. Hardcover.

Silver Street, Harper & Row Publishers. New York Evanston and London. 1969 first edition. Printed in the United States. Jailhouse author.

Book is in good used condition. Dust jacket has some wear. Pages are in excellent shape, has some yellowing from age. Overall, this book is in excellent used condition.

The acclaimed author of Mongo’s Back in Town and the award winning Silver Street was himself a convicted murderer and armed robber who spent most of his adult life behind bars and wrote nearly every page of his 11 mostly tough, dark works of fiction in the narrow confines of a cell at Stillwater State Prison in Minnesota. The mid-westerner had gotten into crime after returning from the army in the early 1960s. After two years of stickups he was caught during a robbery in one state and linked to another in Minnesota.