The main character of this work is first noticed by his benefactor as he stands juggling near a warehouse.
The main character of this work is first noticed by his benefactor as he stands juggling near a warehouse. The title character of this novel takes the lawyer Dixie Davis as a model for how to dress, and is impressed when an accountant in this novel performs some tricks with numbers. In order to secure a favorable trial for himself, a major character in this novel stays at the Onondaga Hotel and even converts to Catholicism with the help of Father Montaine, but that plan is compromised when that character kills Julie Martin over a $50,000 debt. The title character of this novel, whose name is taken from the Bronx street on which he grew up, has an affair with Drew Preston, the mistress of the gangster for whom he works, and who is shot along with his associates Rosenkrantz and Abbadabba Berman at the end of this novel. Opening with the execution of the defector Bo Weinberg, for ten points, identify this novel whose title character is a member of Dutch Schultz's gang, written by E.L. Doctorow.
The main character of this work is first noticed by his benefactor as he stands juggling near a warehouse.
{Billy Bathgate}