Friday 18 December 2020

Angel's In The Gutter - Joseph Hilton

They roamed in gangs, these lost girls, women at fifteen - too old at twenty


GOLD MEDAL BOOKS (US) S913
CONNECTICUT, USA
2ND PRINTING AUGUST 1959
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED GOLD MEDAL BOOKS 1955

WALK DOWN ALL YOUR SIDE STREETS

through the raucous stone jungle of the city's backwash - and you'll meet her.

The delinquent. And hundreds like her, roaming the pavements in aggressive knots, schooled on reefers, zip guns, gutter rumbles.

At fifteen they are women, hard and cynical beyond their years, openly contemptuous of the law, eager for the glamour of the big-time ways of violence.

the lucky ones get caught, maybe in time.

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