Dreams in the Night — Norman Firth

Tiring of her repressed life on a country farm, teenage beauty Alice Graham runs away from home, hoping to find a job as a journalist in New York in the Roaring Twenties. When her money runs out and she is on the edge of despair, she is befriended by Maddie, a veteran of the burlesque theatre, who takes her under her wing. But Alice soon attracts the unwelcome attentions of a New York gangster, which begins a chain of events that ignites a powder keg of murder and ultimate tragedy...