Howe and Hummel, the most notorious criminal law partnership in Gilded Age New York, wrote this 1886 exposé of the traps awaiting newcomers. It catalogues confidence men, bogus barons and heiresses, gamblers, blackmailers, thieves and their haunts, drawing on the cases of clients the authors had defended.
A colourful, self-serving guide to the underworld of 1880s New York, valuable to social historians. Download the free EPUB.