Some Brief Notes
My brief mentions of certain aspects of Manhattan’s nightlife in the early thirties, and the participation of policemen and mobsters therein, are based on historic sources. In fact, I didn’t even scratch the surface in this tale. If you’re interested in the subject, I highly recommend George Chauncey’s award-winning Gay New York.
The domestic architecture of the brownstone is that reported by Archie Goodwin himself in the course of his first case report, Fer-de-Lance. Later, the brownstone’s residents moved around. Or so Archie, whose own reports place the brownstone somewhere in the middle of the Hudson River, claims—
As usual, the opinions expressed and the vocabularies used by the characters do not necessarily reflect those of the author.