To whet your appetites I will just give you a short quote
from the preface:
"This is a book about New York. It may be briefly described
as concerning
the vices and lures that the city proffered to the lower
classes in the
nineteenth century, and the streets and alleys that were
their theater."
This book is definitely hard boiled.
Kimley
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