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Parlor Girls
In this fun, fact-based novel, it’s the early 20th century when Ada and Minna Everleigh climb out a hotel window in the middle of the night during a torrential rain storm and head for the train station leaving behind abusive husbands and a couple of unpaid hotel bills.
For the next several years, they travel the USA with an acting troupe rubbing shoulders with Lillian Russell and “Diamond” Jim Brady. It takes time to earn enough money to open a first-class brothel but persistence pays off. From their first “house-but-not-a-home” in Omaha to Chicago’s world-famous Everleigh House to glorious retirement in New York city, Ada and Minna do it all, see it all, and ease into book-club-hosting society with a fist full of diamonds and a gold piano. Revenge is sweet.
For the next several years, they travel the USA with an acting troupe rubbing shoulders with Lillian Russell and “Diamond” Jim Brady. It takes time to earn enough money to open a first-class brothel but persistence pays off. From their first “house-but-not-a-home” in Omaha to Chicago’s world-famous Everleigh House to glorious retirement in New York city, Ada and Minna do it all, see it all, and ease into book-club-hosting society with a fist full of diamonds and a gold piano. Revenge is sweet.
255 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 6, 2022
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