A Diet Of Treacle Lawrence Block by Lawrence Block 9780843959574, 0843959576 instant download after payment.

Tired of being a good girl, Anita Carbone gets more than she bargained for when she, arriving in Greenwich Village, meets a troubled young war veteran and his drug-dealing roommate, who has a penchant for murder.
Anita
Carbone was a good girl—and it bored her. That’s why she took the long
subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the
stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you
could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war
veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his
drug-dealing roommate—a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder....

Reprinted
for the first time since its pseudonymous publication nearly 50 years
ago, this tour of the 1950s Manhattan underworld begins with Anita, a
good college girl with a bright but predictable future, who comes to
Greenwich Village to find what else is out there. Block’s New York is a
noir wonderland, populated with junkies and beatsters (the dark
predecessor to the modern hipster) spouting angular tough-guy dialogue,
in which Anita plays curious, confused Alice. Down the rabbit hole, she
meets Joe, an aimless loser, and his roommate, Shank, a violent drug
dealer whose earnings provide them with a life of leisure. When
psychopathic Shank murders a cop, however, they all go on the run toward
an uncertain fate. Block effortlessly immerses himself in the mind
space of Joe and Shank, reporting their world of drugs, sex and
disaffection with a matter-of-factness that hits hard, all the more
convincing because Block never makes an overt effort to convince. A
potboiler morality play at its finest, the novel doesn’t deliver much
action until its last third, but the slow build of the first two will
give readers the delicious (and all-too-rare) feeling that anything
could happen. (Jan.)