No Place To Be A Cop

by Frederick Nolan

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...

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Frederick William Nolan is an English editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan, but also using the pen names Donald Severn, Daniel Rockfern, Christine McGuire and Frederick H. Christian.

He was educated in Liverpool and Aberaeron, Wales. At the age of twenty one, he began the researches that established him as one of England's leading authorities on the American West. In 1954 he was co-founder of The English Westerners' Society.