This book was a bit disappointing. The Gods of Gotham should normally be right up my alley because it combines two of my favourite genres, but sadly it didn't deliver. The story has great premise, and I like the idea but the execution could've been better. What bothered me the most was the writin...
It requires those extraordinary samples of human depravity, which have lately disgraced our city, as police officers and judges, to accomplish such deeds, at which the mind naturally revolts. —THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NEW YORK COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE, FOR THE YEAR 183...
Letter sent from Mrs. Colette Lomax to Mr. A. Davenport Lomax, September 3rd, 1902. My only darling, You cannot possibly comprehend the level of incompetence to which I was subjected today. You know full well I never demand a private dressing room w...
If you expected to find yourself in a Gothic snowscape, reader, ears tickling with spectral whispers as the plucky protagonist breaks into a cottage haunted by the shades of her past, regrettably you are mistaken. The door was already unlocked. Opening the panel of the sma...
A walk of ten minutes was reduced to a drive of three, and before we knew it we had pulled up to the aptly titled Goulston Street. The culprit had evidently fled up Stoney Lane, crossed Middlesex Street, and proceeded a block up Wentworth Street before ducking into the more secluded Goulston Stre...
NEVER. God forbid! Are we so tame, so servile, so degenerate, that we cannot maintain the rights of a free soil, and a free people? Where is the spirit of our fathers? Are we slaves, that knowing our rights, we dare not maintain them? —DAVID WILMOT, BARNBURNER, 1847 I DIDN...
The number expected to come to Canada and the States is estimated by some as high as 100,000. The rest of Europe will probably send to the States 75,000 more. • New York Herald, summer 1845 • Becoming a policeman of the Sixth Ward of the city of New York was an unwelcome surprise to me. It’s ...