This tour of the 1950s Manhattan underworld begins with Anita, a good college girl with a bright but predictable future, who comes to Greenwich Village to find what else is out there.
Block’s New York is a noir wonderland, populated...
You think you’ve got problems?
Well, how would you like to get a letter from your ex-wife’s lawyer threatening a lawsuit over a measly few months’ alimony? And then be fired from your job as editor of Ronald Rabbit’s Magazine for Boys...
Four wanting wantons ...each waiting for a fifth to play bedroom bridge. Roz wanted her husband. Elly wanted anybody’s husband. Nan wanted an encore to seduction. Maggie wanted taboo caresses. Quietville, it might have been called. A place for...
SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR…
…and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps...