''The Royal Family'' is a novel by the American author William T. Vollmann. The novel centers around Henry Tyler's private investigative work and his personal desire to find the mysterious Queen of Whores, the matriarch of the prostitutes in the area of

Tenderloin, San Francisco The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping district to the northeast and the Civic Center office district to the southwest. Encom ...

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2000 American novels Novels set in San Francisco Novels about American prostitution Viking Press books {{2000s-erotic-novel-stub