To put it frankly, Diamond Lil was a beautiful short course to Hell.'
Star of the Bowery saloon owned by powerful Gus Jordan, her latest lover, she likes nothing better than 'the white flame of her diamonds or the varied red flames of men's passions.' And seething downtown New York in the Naughty Nineties gives her plenty of both. It's all sport to her- jailed lovers, liquor, gambling- until handsome, mysterious Captain Cummings of the Salvation Army walks into her life. Preacher or no preacher, she wants that man more than any other.
- ISBN10 1860491618
- ISBN13 9781860491610
- Publish Date 5 October 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Virago Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English