Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era.
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Evelyn Piper
A Hitchcock-like thriller about a lost child and a mother depicted as mad.
Tereska Torres
Her husband takes her novels and signs them as his own; she takes his lover and becomes her mistress.
Vera Caspary
A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so she'll never love again.
Gypsy Rose Lee
A hard-boiled murder by America’s most famous burlesque entertainer.
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Olive Higgins Prouty
The captivating novel that inspired the Bette Davis 1943 cult classic film.
Olive Higgins Prouty
This 1923 epic tale of motherhood inspired the Oscar-nominated 1937 movie starring Barbara Stanwyck.
Valerie Taylor
A neglected 1950’s housewife finds the delights and degradations of forbidden love.
Vera Caspary
A novel of breathtaking suspense and a brilliant psychological portrait.