Posts Categorized: Historical

Wiretap! By

Wiretap! Fifteen years before the 1970 movie classic "The Conversation," there was "Wiretap!", Charles Einstein's stunning and authentic crime novel about a massive, illegal telephone eavesdropping operation within a major American city.  Back-in-print for the first time in over 65 years.

"Part pulp fiction, part true-crime narrative, Charles Einstein’s lurid potboiler 'Wiretap!' [is] perhaps the most famous novel about telephone tapping. Part of the appeal lies in its true-to-life details. A standout." Brian Hochman, author of "The Listerners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States"

The Girl Cage By

The Girl Cage Martha Gwynn hated "the girl cage," the San Diego house she shared with four other military wives while their husbands were fighting in Korea. She especially hated how the other women escaped that cage. Martha promised herself she wouldn't be like them -- that she would resist temptation and wait for her husband's safe return. But then her resolve began to crack, threatening to shatter her life.

The Golden Tramp By

The Golden Tramp Gay Bracken is a writer of sexy romance novels whose own wild search to quench her physical and romantic desires is far more exciting and daring than her books. But Gay doesn't realize that she's risking more than a broken heart in her seemingly endless quest for a truly satisfying passion...

The Ungilded Lily By

The Ungilded Lily It's 1950s Chicago. Magazine writer Peter Farmer is hired to spend a week with Lily Dexter, the hottest and richest stripper in the city, and ghostwrite a racy, autobiographical expose under her name that will be published in a national magazine. But his job goes beyond that...