Depraved

by Harold Schechter

For along with the hardworking thousands, the city attracted a very different breed of dweller—creatures lured to the metropolis not by its sparkling promise but by its cloaking shadows, not by the availability of work but by the abundance of prey, not by a hunger for success but by the smell of blood.

Though Winshoff subsequently confessed that he had never actually met Holmes, he stuck to his story, insisting that he had received his information from unimpeachable sources in the spirit world.