Identities were fluid here, and names and appearances weren't always the best guide to telling who was who. Chapter one, Going Respectable opens up with Phillip Lobrano, a well-known man in the New Orleans' prostitution house and Josie Lobrano one of the madams of the place. The women belonging to the prostitution house dressed in knee-length frock coats, pinstriped trousers, and suavely cocked felt derbies, the men strolled through gas lit avenues with their prostitutes. For example, men were accompanied by prostitutes so often that the clerks at department stores had to ask were to send the bill. The Lobranos on the other hand, were well-known characters in New Orleans' and his shooting on Josie's brother was suspected. Josie Lobrano after