The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

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 …

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