
Storyville, New Orleans, 1907. Storyville, New Orleans. Along these scarlet
streets, two thousand "sporting women" service gentlemen and rounders in
grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs. The rye whiskey flows like a brown
river and morphine and cocaine are...

Not New Orleans--but Storyville--noir...and all that jazz 1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped...


In the raucous, bloody, red-light district of Storyville, New Orleans, in 1907, where two thousand scarlet women practice their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber...