Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations / The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.

A detailed exposé of urban crime that combines courtroom observation, legal practice, and firsthand disclosures to map the city's vice economy. It traces the evolution of prisons and gang culture, follows street children, shop and concert-salon employees, and describes methods of shoplifting, panel-house robbery, kleptomania, prostitution, procuring, quackery, abortion, divorce fraud, blackmail, and gambling. The text also examines the roles of detectives, legal machinery, and social conditions that enable criminal careers, offering cautionary portraits of victims and perpetrators while arguing that modern education and technology both aid and conceal wrongdoing.