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Market Street madam /

Market Street Madam tells the story of Annie Ryan, a woman who is running a second-rate brothel in 1890s Denver with an eye toward expansion. By chance, she encounters Lydia Chambers, a society woman suffering from a laudanum habit and a bad marriage, who owns a prized property on the infamous Marke...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuelson-Brown, Randi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : TWODOT, 2021.
Subjects:
Colorado State Capitol (Denver, Colo.) > Fiction.
Colorado State Capitol (Denver, Colo.)
Brothels > Fiction.
Denver (Colo.) > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Brothels.
Murder.
Colorado > Denver.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Western fiction.
Western stories.
Table of Contents:
  • Denver really is murder
  • Past History and a Questionable Future
  • The Familiar Allure of Money
  • History Lessons
  • Younger Women Need to Learn Their Places
  • What Passes as Quality, The Social Register
  • Strange Business Partners
  • Soured Romances and a Business to Run
  • Rivalries
  • The Wrong Side of Denver Suits Some People Just Fine
  • Whore with a Heart of Gold
  • A Crooked Business for a Crooked Family
  • Bottom of the Pile
  • In Hock from the Start
  • Valuations of Female Flesh
  • State Street Sirens
  • You Can Only Sell Your Virginity Once, Can't You?
  • Slumming Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
  • Men Who Don't Want to Pay
  • Graft, Liquor Licenses, and Miscellaneous Payments
  • Easy Money Is Hard to Find on the Road to Ruin
  • The Coexistence of the Dregs of Denver and the Path to Riches
  • Money Problems Are Just the Beginning
  • Missing Days and Unwanted Attentions
  • Leadville Dalliances of the Rough Variety
  • Different Kinds of Graves
  • Horning In
  • Unwholesome Habits Don't Count, When You Have Enough Money
  • Discarded Like Mine Tailings
  • A Cow Town of Glorious Proportions with a High Percentage of Unattached Men, for One Reason or Another
  • Downhill to Denver
  • Bullies and New Beginnings
  • Jealousies, Petty and Otherwise
  • Interests, Ambitions, and Dead Whores
  • Gutter Aspirations and Overlooked Details
  • The Opium Scrolls
  • Disillusionment with the Gilded Life
  • Whoever Said You Can't Put a Price on It Had Never Been to Market Street
  • Rolling with the Punches
  • Strange Bedfellows
  • She Sank to the Occasion
  • Employers' Choice and Changing Fortunes
  • It Was No One's First Rodeo
  • Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Thing
  • Threats and Arrangements Are Easily Made
  • Losing Hands All Around
  • Replacements Don't Matter to Market Street
  • A Very Rough Thursday Morning After
  • Overplayed Hands
  • Spoiling for a Fight
  • Things Go Off
  • Stagnant Water
  • Crime Pays Handsomely When It Comes Right Down to It.