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...

The Flesh - And Mr. Rawlie By

The Flesh – And Mr. Rawlie "A ruthless, cynical, and yet compassionate novel of the Broadway show game, its glamor, it's vigor and its tragedies." Pensacola News-Journal

The death of Broadway playwright John Rawlie's first wife, and the crumbling of his second marriage, have him spiraling toward suicide on the night before the opening of his newest play.

Stop Over By

Stop Over A searing novel about the clash of Hollywood glitz and small-town hypocrisy, back in print for the first time on over 60 years.

When the good people of Greenleaf, Pennsylvania condemed Fred Nichols' mother for her adultery, and wept insincerely over her grave, he left town in disgust and wound up in Hollywood, where he remade himself as a fixer for the stars. Now tan and rich, he's making his fat living keeping a rock star actor Tommy Hatcher's wild lifestyle and insatiable desires from creating headlines. But now Tommy's new movie, The Cool and the Haunted, is shooting in Greenleaf, and Fred will have to confront his past to protect the superstar...and save himself.