Foreword by Erik Lee Preminger

In this steamy sequel to The G-String Murders, Gypsy Rose Lee's noir thriller reads as if it's ripped from her own diary pages. When her mother finds a dead body in Gypsy's trailer during her honeymoon, Gypsy realizes that no one is who they seem to be, and everyone is worthy of suspicion.

Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-twentieth century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era.

"Pure ozone to those tired of ordinary oxygen." —The New Yorker

"One of the greatest mysteries ever written." —Philadelphia Daily News

"Our most famous burlesque queen may raise the temperature with a strip tease, but she chills the blood when she goes into her detective routine." —Boston Post