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Author
Series
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
Author
Series
Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1993
Language
English
4) The 1920s
Author
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper’s daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later.
9) Sheer folly
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Performing architectural research in the spring of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her collaborator Lucy lock horns with their subject's tactless and womanizing owner and must sort through a long list of suspects when the man is spectacularly murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929. It all begins on a summer weekend in July of 1926 when, for the first time in years, the earl has planned a family weekend. As the family members come together, secrets, problems, joys, and sorrows are revealed. As old...
12) The stills
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a teen's near death from a tainted batch of moonshine, Sheriff Lily Ross and expert distiller Marvena Whitcomb confront a nemesis bootlegger and Lily's prohibitionist brother-in-law to protect the citizens of their 1927 Ohio community.
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest ouside of London. Called in to lead the investigation, DCI Alec fletcher of Scotland Yard is under urgent orders from his supervisor at the Yark to accomplish two things: solve the mystery quickly, and keep his wife, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher far away from the case.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes an adventure tale about two daredevils and a farm boy who embark on the journey of a lifetime across America's heartland in the Roaring Twenties. Set in the rapidly changing world of 1920s America, this is a story of three people from very different backgrounds: Henry "Schuler" Jefferson, son of German immigrants from Midwestern farm country; Cora Rose Haviland,...
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. While communism and prohibition are debated in speakeasies, society will never be the same, and crime has never had it better. A new age calls for a new kind of detective and the women of Drake Private Detectives fit the bill.
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