The City's Gone

By R. C. Bloom

What do Wyatt Earp, Al Capone, and the greatest comedian of all time have in common? They shared the same soil.

For more than a century, the place behind the old vaudeville question Will It Play in Peoria? has been a crossroads of American ambition and American ruin. In this novella spanning 150 years, four men move through the same streets in different eras, each shaped by the city's appetite for reinvention.

A young Wyatt Earp runs brothels before rewriting his legend. A distiller watches Prohibition erase the industry that built the town. A boy born in a brothel becomes the sharpest voice in American comedy. And a modern narrator returns home to find the ghosts still walking.

Part history, part noir, part American folklore, The City's Gone reveals how a single place can hold more truth than any of the men who tried to escape it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H15DMCCP
• ISBN13: 9798195609139
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"