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In 1920s England, Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to go alone into a haunted barn looking for the truth. She's even less...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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The Honorable Phryne Fisher decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia. Almost immediately after she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops, and communism--not to mention erotic encounters with a beautiful Russian dancer.
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Series
Wicked city novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"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,...
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"Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family...
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English
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NEW YORK CITY 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New Yorker. Winifred Lenihan: beautiful and talented Broadway actress,...
12) The widows
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vowing revenge against her sheriff husband's killers in 1924 Ohio, Lily Ross offers help to a fellow widow and uncovers dangerous evidence revealing her husband's corrupt secret life and the complexities that triggered his death.
13) Bitter spirits
Author
Series
Roaring twenties volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the roaring twenties and San Francisco is a hotbed of illegal boozing, raw lust and black magic. The fog-covered Bay Area can be an intoxicating scene, particularly when you specialize in spirits.
14) The other typist
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English
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1923. Rose Baker is a typist for the New York City Police Department. Although she spends her days hearing about horrific crimes, she is still part of the supposedly ''weaker'' sex. Rose has always been a traditional girl, but when the modern Odalie joins the typing pool, Rose falls under her spell. As the women bond in the typing pool by day and in speakeasies at night, Rose finds her fascination with Odalie deepening into an obsession which may...
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"The first book in a major new series from the #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley. Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"--a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva--having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage--a clue which takes Maia across the world to...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Peaky Blinders meets Ocean’s 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targeting posh department stores and elites. London in the 1920s is no place for a woman with a mind of her own. Gang wars, violence, and an unforgiving world have left pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambling to survive in the Mint, the gritty neighborhood...
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Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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A tale based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night finds expats Sara and Gerald Murphy sharing freewheeling days, hosting parties and hiding heartbreaking secrets in the 1920s French Riviera.
20) South of heaven
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
In the 1920's, the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that some people call 'South of Heaven', and the worst you could be doing there was lying a gas pipeline, along with 600 other hoboes, juice-heads, and jailbirds.
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