Here’s the skinny.

Manhattanville is an authentic “aged” reproduction of the
125th St. Pawnshop’s end of the year volume. A compilation
of all patrons and loans made.

The book is very small, roughly 4 1/2 inches deep and 3 1/2
inches wide, easily carried in a shirt pocket.
It is spiral wire bound down the side.

Each entry contains the customers name, address, item
pawned, amount of the loan, whether they redeemed the loan.
All authentic streets and boroughs!

For those of you that have never been down on your luck, a
pawnbroker lends money to customers in exchange for personel
items of value.
The customer then has a certain period of time to come back
to the pawnshop, pay off the loan (with interest), and get
their item back.
If they do not pay off the loan in time (usually four
months) they forfeit the item.

Pawnshops kept a daily log of the loans made. This
complication volume containes the date of the loan, the
customers name, address, item pawned and the amount of the
loan.

Manhattanville is a sometimes sentimental, sometimes
frightening look into the lives of some of the more
"colorful" residents of New York city.

Each customer of The 125th Street Pawnshop has a story; some
were poor, some were rich and some killed to get the item
they pawned.

You will be able to describe the customer, the item pawned
in detail, the amount of money lent on the item, the loan
number, whether they redeemed the item and most importantly,
the story behind the item.

There are over 50 pages and 350 customers in the 1950
volume.

You do not need to peek a page, you do not have to know a
page number, you do not look at the book.
In fact you could do this with your back to the spec, but
that would be rude.

READ THIS!
Manhattanville is designed as a force book for the female
murder victims in the Homicide U.S. book!

All of the female patrons of the 125th Street Pawn Shop
(circa 1950) are murder victims in the Homicide U.S. book
(circa 1953)

This means that every female patron is an automatic "force"
murder victim.

Briefly, as you are describing a patron of the pawn shop you
suddenly stop and say " I've seen her before in another old
book I have. I'm sure I have. She was murdered. She's in an
old case book I have."

(Now you go ahead and completely her describe the murder
scenario.)

Remember, they havn't told you the name of the person or
anything else, yet now you're not only able to disclose the
pawnshop information, you can now take it much further and
start describe the murder scene that occured years later!

It allows for the perfect segueway into the murder book!

Without ever asking the "patrons" name you can hand them
Homicide U.S. and tell them "I believe she is in this book"
and of course she is!

The names have been re-arranged on the pages of
Manhattanville so that none of the female patrons of the
pawn shop book appear together on the same pages as in the
Homicide U.S. book.

IMPORTANT: All the female customers in Manhattanville are
murder victims in Homicide U.S., but not all the the
Homicide U.S female victims are in Manhattanville.

This means you must start with Manhattanville if you are
going to combine the effects and do the murder revelation
and bring in the Homicide U.S. book.
This is the strongest presentation, and the method that is
intended to be used if you are going to combine the books.

You can of course have both books available for the spec to
have a free choice of using and do the individual
presentations with either of the books.

Both Homicide U.S. and Manhattanville are stand alone
effects.
The crossover presentations will be discussed on the product
forums.

MY COMMENTS:
This is the second in a series of excellent props that are
notebooks of information, aged by hand.  While the first,
Homicide, centered on victims of unsolved mysteries, this
one is a receipt book from a pawnshop.  Personally, I prefer
this because it is less gruesome, but that's my taste.
Instead of victims and the grisly details of the murder, you
can get readings on the gender of the person who pawned the
item, the item pawned, the amount of money lent, the loan
number, and whether the item was redeemed or forfeited.
Also, for those who have homicide, all the female patrons
are victims in the Homicide book and male patrons are
profiled killers in the upcoming third in the series,
Sinister.