The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Mystery,
Crime,
Biography Memoir,
Southern,
True Crime,
Womens
Wiltz has written a fascinating history of the social life in New Orleans during the Prohibition Era. She focuses on the life of Norma Wallace, a prostitute who managed to become a highclass madam and political power. Liquor was the source of her initial stake -- it was ironic that more liquor seeme...