In Chicago and New York, in sleazy speakeasies and on Easy Street, to the strains of jazz and the beat of the Charleston, the twenties roared. The horrors of the Great War behind it, the decade went mad with abandon—and mad over the movies, radio, telephones, and the motorcar. But beneath the froth and the folly, the razzle and dazzle, lay a darker world, a hard and often violent world, for the twenties belonged as much to the gangster as they did to the flapper. The stories in this vastly entertaining collection of whodunnits crafted by talents like Amy Myers, Robert Randisi, Jon L. Breen, Edward D. Hoch, Marilyn Todd, and Mike Stotter reflect the allures—and the deadly dangers—of both those worlds.
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Mme Storey, New York, Sir Reginald, Inspector Rumsey, John Elwes, Spooky Spookins, Jack Austin, Constable Price, Dolly Diamond, Harry Rothstein, Kate Arkledon, Sheriff Lens, Skip Halio, Tadley Gate, Bobby Astor, Communist Party, Louis Boucard, Bat Masterson, Clara Walling, Harold Lloyd, Lord Bognor, Owney Madden, Sir John, Special Branch, Cup Final New!
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Greenwich Village is our enclave, our village, and we rarely venture east of Washington Square Park, unless of course it is for one of our fancy dress balls, which we hold at Webster Hall on Eleventh Street near Third Avenue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mme Storey, New York, Sir Reginald, Inspector Rumsey, John Elwes, Spooky Spookins, Jack Austin, Constable Price, Dolly Diamond, Harry Rothstein, Kate Arkledon, Sheriff Lens, Skip Halio, Tadley Gate, Bobby Astor, Communist Party, Louis Boucard, Bat Masterson, Clara Walling, Harold Lloyd, Lord Bognor, Owney Madden, Sir John, Special Branch, Cup Final New!
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- Philo Vance : Four Complete Novels (The Benson Murder Case / The "Canary" Murder Case / The Bishop Murder Case / The Scarab Murder Case) by S. S. Van Dine in Front Matter, and page 417
- Washington Square (Signet Classics) by Henry James on page 4, and page 18
- Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers in Front Matter
- Act Of Fear by Judy Collins on page 108
- Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) by G. Martin on page 344
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