Jenny and Rosie Dolly were identical twins from Budapest who got so famous in the 1920s that a British department store magnate spent millions trying to keep them happy, a heavyweight boxing champion refused to pick a favorite between them, and a Spanish king reportedly carried on a three year flirtation with one of them. They danced their way from a cramped New York walk-up to chateaus in France, treated the casino at Deauville like a second stage, and packed in enough wealt

Adolf Hitler once sent Margery Booth 200 red roses wrapped in a sash printed with a swastika. He'd just watched her sing at Bayreuth and told her she was perfectly charming. What he didn't know was that the same woman was smuggling British intelligence out of Nazi Germany hidden in her underwear, hiding a Jewish woman in her Berlin flat, and burying stolen documents in the grounds of a royal palace. She got away with it for years, moving through Hitler's inner circle as one o

Tempest Storm spent almost 60 years on stage, but her offstage life reads like a highlight reel of mid-century America's most dangerous men. She danced her way from a Georgia cotton farm to the top of the Vegas Strip, and along the way she wound up in the arms of a president-to-be, the King of Rock and Roll, and one of Los Angeles' most feared gangsters. She outlived pretty much all of them, and she never stopped talking about it. A Hard Start in Dodge County, Georgia She was