The French Quarter
Subtitle: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
By: by Herbert Asbury.
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 462
Copyright date: 1936
Subjects: Crime -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.; Vieux Carré (New Orleans, La.) -- History.; New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.; New Orleans (La.) -- Moral conditions.
Notes: "Bibliography: p. [457]-462.
"First edition."
Table of contents: title: Nouvelle-Orléans --; title: In the days of the dons --; title: Down the river to Dixie --; title: Le créole s'amuse --; title: The terror of the Gulf [Jean Lafitte] --; title: Filibusters --; title: Gamblers afloat and ashore --; title: Congo Square --; title: Voodoo --; title: "An epoch of degeneration" --; title: "Hell on earth" --; title: Some loose ladies of Basin Street --; title: Criminals' paradise --; title: Storyville.