No. 10 Doyers Street by Radha Vatsal
After several years of hard work, I'm excited to share that my new novel, No. 10 Doyers Street, comes out in March 2025.
Inspired by real events, it tells the story of Archana Morley, a woman journalist from India who becomes embroiled in a case involving the Chinatown gangster Mock Duck and his young daughter in 1900s New York City.
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.
