The Jazz Age
Fiction
7,000 Clams
Lee Irby
CRIME IRBY L
Framk Hearn is a down-and-out bootlegger who finds a handwritten IOU for $7000 signed by Babe Ruth. He decides to follow The Babe to Florida to convince The Babe to give him the money.
Bandbox
Thomas Mallon
FIC MALLON T
Joe Harris is the editor of the Bandbox, a Jazz Age magazine. Jimmy Gordon is his protégé turned renegade who tries to wrest control from Harris in a no holds barred struggle.
The Collection: a novel
Gioia Diliberto
FIC DILBERT G
Isabelle Varlet is an orphan who thought she found happiness with her fiancée. When he dies, she develops her talents as a seamstress in the cutthroat world of Coco Chanel’s high fashion Paris.
Death in a Deck Chair
K.K. Beck
CRIME BECK K
Roaring 20s co-ed Iris Cooper debuts as a sleuth in this ocean liner mystery. When a professor's secretary ends up dead, the search is on to discover his killer. Was he really what he seemed; or was he a blackmailer? Iris must discover the truth before the killer strikes again.
Free Love
Annette Meyers
CRIME MEYERS A
Olivia is a newly published poet living in Greenwich Village. On her way to a speakeasy, she stumbles over a body and is horrified when she realizes the body has been made up to look like her! As she investigates, she finds she is being stalked by someone bent on revenge.
High on a Hill
Dorothy Garlock
FIC GARLOCK D
Having to move around because of her bootlegger father’s business, Anabel Lee is thrilled when a young boy arrives to help her father. When a handsome law officer is sent to find the runaway boy, Anabel must choose between the lawman and her father in this 1920s romance.
The House at Riverton
Kate Morton
FIC MORTON K
In 1999, Grace is living in a nursing home. 70 years ago, she was a servant at Riverton House where a poet killed himself during a society party. A filmmaker contacts her to record her recollections and takes her back to Riverton House where the long ago story is told in a series of flashbacks.
The Jazz Bird
Craig Holden
CRIME HOLDEN C
When Geroge Remus is sent to prison for bootlegging, he has $80 million dollars in his bank account. Upon his release, he learns that his wife has left him and his bank account is empty. What happens next will result in a nationally known trial and sentd shock waves through the public.
What Caroline Knew
Caryn James
FIC JAMES C
Caroline Stephens is a aristocrat of the Jazz Age. Feeling trapped in a boring marriage, she decides to promote Nick, a handsome painter, and is horrified when his opening exhibition includes a nude picture of her. As scandal engulfs her, Caroline insists she never posed for the painting and sets out to ruin Nick.
Nonfiction
1929: America Before the Crash
Warren Sloat
973.91 SLO
The Bootleggers: the story of Chicago’s prohibition era
Kenneth Allsop
364.106 ALL
Harlem Speaks: a living history of the Harlem Renaissance
Ed. By Cary D. Wintz
810.9896 HAR
Lindbergh: a biography
A. Scott Berg
BIO LIN
Only Yesterday: an informal history of the 1920s
Frederick Lewis Allen
973.9 ALL
Silent Stars
Jeanine Basinger
791.43 BAS
The St. Valentine’s Massacre: the untold story of the gangland bloodbath that brought down Al Capone
William Heller
364.106