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The Last Madam A Life in the New Orleans Underworld Hardcover - 2000

by Chris Wiltz


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In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape-recorded her memories -- the scandalous stories of a powerful woman who had the city's politicians in her pocket and whose lovers included the twenty-five-year-old boy next door, whom she married when she was sixty-four. Combining those tapes with original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles not just Norma's rise and fall but also the social history of New Orleans, thick with the vice and corruption that flourished there -- and, like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Philistines at the Hedgerow, resurrects a vanished secret world.

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Norma Wallace stood on a bed of pine needles deep in the Mississippi woods, dressed in a smart red pantsuit and low-vamp leather pumps; she spread her feet apart, sighted down the barrel of her.

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  • Title The Last Madam A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
  • Author Chris Wiltz
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher FABER & FABER, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date January 2000
  • ISBN 9780571199549
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