Sin in the Second City: madams, ministers, playboys, and the battle for America's soul

Author's note: The girls who disappeared

Cast of characters

Prologue: Angels of the line

Pt. 1. The scarlet sisters Everleigh. Striped skunk and wild onions ; Another Uncle Tom's cabin ; Getting Everleighed ; The demon of lust lies in wait ; Lovely little lies ; The stories everyone knows ; Lords and ladies of the levee ; Great in religion, great in sin ; Knowing your Balzac ; Invocation ; Millionaire playboy shot - accident or murder?

Pt. 2. Flesh and bone, body and soul. Midnight toil and peril ; Ultra décolleté and other evils ; The brilliant entrance to hell itself ; The tragedy of Mona Marshall ; Men and their baser mischiefs ; Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission ; More immoral than heathen China ; The organizer ; It don't never get good until three in the morning ; Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission ; Judgment days ; Have you a girl to spare? ; Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission ; So many nice young men ; Immoral purposes, whatever those are

Pt. 3. Fighting for the protection of our girls. Millionaire playboy dead - morphine or madam? ; Girls gone wrong ; A lost soul ; The social evil in Chicago ; Painted, peroxided, bedizened ; You get everything in a lifetime ; Dangerous elements ; Just how wicked ; Fallen is Babylon ; Little lost sister.