Publisher's Synopsis
The place is Manhattan, in the year 1878. A million people live in her teeming streets. She's a bitch. She boasts 6000 professional criminals, 5000 whores, and only 2000 policemen and twenty-eight detectives to investigate all the crimes committed. The New York Police Department deals with them all - from street-gang vendettas to sex murders and con men. And they also run up against a new phenomenon - a secret society called the Mafia in the district known as Little Italy...
