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Broadway Racketeers

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Real stories of the Runyonesque characters and their shady ways of the Broadway underworld during the Jazz Age. Herein we learn of Selling Stiffs (mail order gyps), Sheet Passing (check kiting), The Glim Dropper (con man with a fake glass eye), Fire Proofers (phony street preachers "saving" folks from the fires of hell) and many more.

255 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1928

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John O'Connor

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