I recently listened to the audiobook for You Can't Win, by reformed old-timey criminal Jack Black (published 1926). It was amazingly well written (the guy read thousands of books in prison), and showed the underworld in the US and Canada, including the "hop joints".
I recently listened to the audiobook for You Can't Win, by reformed old-timey criminal Jack Black (published 1926). It was amazingly well written (the guy read thousands of books in prison), and showed the underworld in the US and Canada, including the "hop joints".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Win_(book)