Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Washington Confidential

2. “GORGEOUS” GEORGETOWN 8 No relation to the wrestler, only sometimes he makes more sense than the rich big domes and fancy queers who reside in this made-to-order Greenwich Village.

Chapters

1. Part One--THE PLACES (Confidential!)

2. “GORGEOUS” GEORGETOWN 8 No relation to the wrestler, only sometimes he makes more sense than the rich big domes and fancy queers who reside in this made-to-order Greenwich Vi...

2. Part Two--THE PEOPLE (Confidential!)

19. BOOZE AND BOTTLES 123 Washingtonians imbibe three times as much as you. Where they get it, how and why, with pointers on what to do with your hollow leg.

3. Part Three--THE ESCAPE (Confidential!)

4. Part Four--THE LOWDOWN (Confidential!)

5. Part Five--THE APPENDIX (Confidential!)

We turned New York inside out; but we both live there. We turned Chicago upside down; but we were both raised there. We descended on Washington not quite like Stanley invaded Af...

6. PART ONE

The founding fathers, whose infinite wisdom gave us a Constitution and form of government well nigh perfect, located the seat of that government in a stinking, steaming swamp. T...

7. PART TWO

We have seen them all, all over the world, but nowhere else are they like they are in Washington. This town has 100,000 more nubile women than men. Forty-five percent of all its...

8. PART THREE

The most itching urge in Washington is to get away from it. Few have the conventional home ties there which bind the average American to the hearth, or the radiator. Weekends ar...

9. PART FOUR

Suckers aren’t born at the rate of one a minute, Washington never does anything on time; but the Union Station and the airfield pour them out day and night. And God made them ma...

10. PART FIVE

AMBASSADOR HOTEL (NA-8510) Hi-Hat: Joe Brito CARLTON HOTEL (ME-2626) Congo Room: Stephen COLONY RESTAURANT (ST-8165): Orlando Connio MAYFLOWER HOTEL (DI-3000) Lounge: Alfred Leg...