No. 10 Doyers Street by Radha Vatsal
New York City, 1907. Archana Morley knows what it's like to be an outsider. As a woman journalist from India making her way through the cutthroat world of tabloid newspapers, she's always on the lookout for untold stories.
In the aftermath of a bloody shooting in Chinatown, Archana finds her most challenging subject-the dreaded gangster Mock Duck. But she realizes that things are not as they seem when the mayor declares Chinatown must be demolished, and the authorities raid Mock's home and tear apart his family. She embarks on a quest for the truth that leads her from gritty alleys to the back-room politics of City Hall and beyond.
Inspired by real events, No. 10 Doyers Street is a gripping novel of New York City on the cusp of modernity, as seen through a unique immigrant perspective.
Doyers Street, Chinatown, New York City
George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Doyers Street, along with Pell and Mott Streets, forms the heart of Chinatown. Doyers earned the nickname “the Bloody Angle,” because of the gunfights that took place at its sharp bend. Warring gangs would attack each other and then run around the corner out of sight. Mock Duck, the legendary gangster lived at No. 10, Doyers Street.
Sai Wing Mock (aka Mock Duck) (1879–July 23, 1941) was the Chinese-American leader of the Hip Sing Tong, and one of the most feared gangsters of the early 20th Century.
