Market Street Madam

<P><I>Market Street Madam </I>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 Market Street. Annie's fortunes at the brothel turn on her niece Pearl a pretty young girl swept up in Denver's underworld of jealousy booze and vice--until murder stalks the good-time girls and puts everyone's future in doubt. A rollicking tale of blurred lines flowing booze played-out miners and upstairs girls <I>Market STreet Madam </I> delivers a compelling look at the intrigues of the Wild West where women were enterprising and justice could be had . . . for a price.</P>