You know the story of Lucky Luciano, but do you know about the women who helped take him down? That's exactly the story 'A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age" (Doubleday), Debby Applegate, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Applegate (The Most Famous Man in America) chronicles the astonishing rags-to-riches tale of Pearl “Polly” Adler (1900–1962), “the proprietress of Manhattan’s most ...

Polly Adler gets hauled into court in Yorkville, 1935. Photo: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images “There was a club there, the Cocoanut Grove,” Debby Applegate says, half to ...

A House Is Not a Home. Polly Adler was a flashy flesh-peddler who flourished in Manhattan during the ’20s and ’30s and liked to think her establishment was the Versailles of vice. It was indeed a ...

During the Roaring '20s, Polly Adler joined the sex trade just as Prohibition was getting started. In her new book, "Madam," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Debby Applegate traces Adler's rise from ...

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