Publisher's Synopsis
New York, 1949. At the Candy Box Club, the gayest nightspot in town, the show is about to begin. But in this club the world is upside down. Emcee Blackie Cole is Blanche Cohen, and the chorus line is led by a stunning dark-eyed boy. Here crooked police and mobsters mix with lesbian drag kings and gay drag queens and the only thing protecting them is Stevie, the kingpin of the mob's downtown operation whose hands move from the till to the pockets of the police. Richly detailed, this is a stunning tale of murder and corruption set in the twilight world of the pre-Stonewall era.
