THE WHITE MOLL (Annotated)

The White Moll is a briskly plotted crime romance of the New York underworld, centered on a young woman whose moral courage must operate amid disguises, aliases, gang loyalties, and the shadow economies of the slum. Packard writes in the high-tension idiom of early twentieth-century popular fiction: rapid scenes, cliff-hanger revelations, sharp dialogue, and a fascination with hidden identities. T...