Help I Am Being Held Prisonerby Donald E. Westlake | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - Adventure" |
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| Pages: | 255 |
| Year of Publication: | 1974 |
| Date Added: | 01/21/2021 |
| Date Read: | 09/28/2025 |
| Notes: | Harry Kent is a compulsive practical joker. One joke—that caused a multiple-car pile-up—landed him in prison. He's assigned to work in the prison gym where he meets seven other inmates with a secret—a tunnel hidden behind a wall that leads to a house outside the prison, owned by the wife of one of the group. The men take turns on the town—eating out, meeting girls, going to parties. The others inform Harry that they plan to rob a bank. Harry, who isn't really a criminal, isn't crazy about the idea and manages, by way of practical jokes, to postpone the robbery, but eventually he had to help. They get away with it because they have the perfect alibi—they're in prison. Meanwhile, Harry is blamed for a series of jokes in the prison, and the warden threatens to confine him to his cell. The gardener, who was actually doing the jokes, plants flowers to spell out a message that exonerates Harry. He decides to stop doing practical jokes, and he and his in-town girlfriend agree that prison has reformed him. |
| My Rating: | 7 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2025-09-29 12:59:46
