Introduction

The science of Cartography claims certain places on the map will bring one person good luck and the next misery. In other places no one had fortune on his side.

Such was the case of the claustrophobic township housing the Jackson Rehabilitation Center in Indiana, a town dominated by a long stone wall that seeped with grime in the August sun, holding the contamination within its iron periphery while the watch tower guard smoked lazily on a cigarette.

When Rita Henshaw and her psychiatrist husband moved to the Center's housing project, the dark shadow cast by that wall became a psychological barrier to her freedom of mind. Then, moment by breathless moment, that psychological fear turned into a physical reality.

Female Prisoner is another Edward Mitchell story of fast-paced drama, a story of physical violence and the twisted minds that perpetrated it. Wrapped up in the midst of an administrative scandal, the demure blonde finds herself its prime target. She combats the evil forces being leveled against her flesh and fights a moral battle to the finish.

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