A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
Author: Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2007-08-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393329895

Meet George Appo, pickpocket, con man, mayor of underworld New York in the late 19th century. In Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. 60 illustrations.