Geoffrey Ravenslee, a melancholy millionaire with nothing to live for, goes looking for an object in life and finds himself lodging with Mrs. Trapes in Hell’s Kitchen. There he meets the streetwise Spike, the girl on the stairs and the neighbourhood’s gangsters, and his idle life acquires a purpose at last.
A 1917 romance of New York from the author of The Broad Highway, sentimental and briskly entertaining. Download the free EPUB.