Chapter 2This old part of Baltimore was basically small row houses that had been there since the last century. There were still little corner shops that sold milk, bread, cigarettes and staples of everyday life, never anything too expensive or very gourmet, just the necessities. Every now and then there’d be a bakery or a restaurant that had good food for a reasonable price. And every other corner had a bar or tavern that served the local folk, to help them forget the rigors of their lives.
The Canton district was a blue-collar neighborhood. The houses, with their faded brick, showed the wear of time. Some of the cement and bricks around the entrances were cracked or chipped and the sidewalks were uneven from shifts beneath the pavement. A few of the houses had been turned into small stor
