The other side of the street

About this book

According to a review I found in the archives of the Baltimore Sun from 1962, the book is about a bookmaker who retired from his illegal trade for health reasons, but then gets traped in a raid on an establisment run by an old friend of his. He is faced with a jail term and he tries to bribe his way out of it. According to the review, it has a lot of local color about Baltimore where the story takes place. The author, Sidney Offit, later wrote "Memoir of a Bookie's Son" which is an account of his own life growing up in Baltimore while his father was operating as a bookie. I would like to find a copy of "The Other Side of the Street" as background reading for a book I am planning to write.