Set over the course of a single evening, this literary thriller is at once a detective story, a romance, and a coming-of-age tale-it is also a story of old New York, of Greenwich Village between the wars, of artists and bohemians lighting up Manhattan as the Great Depression descends upon the city. For the hundredth time since they'd made their promise, she wondered if she and Agnes were really going to go through with it, if she was brave and terrible...