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The Fate of a Flapper

Author : Susanna Calkins
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 125019086X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Fate of a Flapper written by Susanna Calkins and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fate of a Flapper, the second mystery in this captivating new series, takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920's Chicago speakeasy. A 2019 Agatha Award Nominee for "Best Historical Mystery"! After nine months as a cigarette girl at the Third Door, one of Chicago’s premier moonshine parlors, Gina Ricci feels like she's finally getting into the swing of things. The year is 1929, the Chicago Cubs are almost in the World Series, neighborhood gangs are all-powerful, and though Prohibition is the law of the land, the Third Door can't serve the cocktails fast enough. Two women in particular are throwing drinks back with abandon while chatting up a couple of bankers, and Gina can't help but notice the levels of inebriation and the tension at their table. When the group stumbles out in the early morning, she tries to put them out of her head. But once at home that night, Gina's sleep is interrupted when her cousin Nancy, a police officer, calls—she's found a body. Gina hurries over to photograph the crime scene, but stops short when she recognizes the body: it’s one of the women from the night before. Could the Third Door have served the woman bad liquor? Or, Gina wonders, could this be murder? As the gangs and bombings draw ever closer, all of Chicago starts to feel like a warzone, and Gina is determined to find out if this death was an unlucky accident, or a casualty of combat.

Flappers and the New American Woman

Author : Catherine Gourley
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822560607
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Flappers and the New American Woman written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the late 1910s and 1920s and how they changed women's role in society.

Murder Knocks Twice

Author : Susanna Calkins
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250190843
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Murder Knocks Twice written by Susanna Calkins and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first mystery in Susanna Calkins’ captivating new series takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy. Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father—and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago’s most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She’s enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room, the flirtatious jazz pianist and the brooding photographer—all overseen by the club’s imposing owner, Signora Castallazzo. But the staff buzzes with whispers about Gina’s predecessor, who died under mysterious circumstances, and the photographer, Marty, warns her to be careful. When Marty is brutally murdered, with Gina as the only witness, she’s determined to track down his killer. What secrets did Marty capture on his camera—and who would do anything to destroy it? As Gina searches for answers, she’s pulled deeper into the shadowy truths hiding behind the Third Door.

A Murder at Rosamund's Gate

Author : Susanna Calkins
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250007917
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Murder at Rosamund's Gate written by Susanna Calkins and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other household chores until a fellow servant is ruthlessly killed, and someone close to Lucy falls under suspicion. Lucy can't believe it, but in a time where the accused are presumed guilty until proven innocent, lawyers aren't permitted to defend their clients, and—if the plague doesn't kill the suspect first—public executions draw a large crowd of spectators, Lucy knows she may never find out what really happened. Unless, that is, she can uncover the truth herself. Determined to do just that, Lucy finds herself venturing out of her expected station and into raucous printers' shops, secretive gypsy camps, the foul streets of London, and even the bowels of Newgate prison on a trail that might lead her straight into the arms of the killer. In her debut novel Murder at Rosamund's Gate, Susanna Calkins seamlessly blends historical detail, romance, and mystery in a moving and highly entertaining tale.

A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author : Kirk Curnutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195153030
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald written by Kirk Curnutt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Guides to American Authors is an interdisciplinary, historically sensitive series that combines close attention to the United States' most widely read and studied authors with a strong sense of time, place, and history. Placing each writer in the context of the vibrant relationship between literature and society, volumes in this series contain historical essays written on subjects of contemporary social, political, and cultural relevance. Each volume also includes a capsule biography and illustrated chronology detailing important cultural events as they coincided with the author's life and works, while photographs and illustrations dating from the period capture the flavor of the author's time and social milieu. Equally accessible to students of literature and of life, the volumes offer a complete and rounded picture of each author in his or her America. Book jacket.

Violette Noziere

Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948734
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Violette Noziere written by Sarah Maza and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.

Flappers and Philosophers

Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Middleton Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Flappers and Philosophers written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Middleton Classics. This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ragtime Dudes Meet a Paris Flapper

Author : Richard Gartee
Publisher : Lake & Emerald Publications
ISBN 13 : 0990676897
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Ragtime Dudes Meet a Paris Flapper by : Richard Gartee

Download or read book Ragtime Dudes Meet a Paris Flapper written by Richard Gartee and published by Lake & Emerald Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragtime is old hat, World War I is over, and the Roaring Twenties are underway. Cherie, an American flapper living it up in Paris, never intends to go back to her tiny hometown, Taos, New Mexico. But while visiting her sister in New York, a telegram brings word that an old friend, Morgan, is dying. Ragtime dudes Morgan and Jack, and wife Abigail, helped the sisters when their mother died. Now it’s time to repay the favor. They arrive in Taos to find Abigail overwhelmed, Jack’s in denial about Morgan’s fate, and Abigail’s son, Cyrus, is suffering from shell-shock—just like veterans Cherie’s seen in Paris. Touched by his plight, Cherie nurtures him. It’s not long before they fall in love. Abigail fears that once Cherie returns to Paris, Cyrus will be worse off than before. Cherie misunderstands and thinks mother hen wants her out of the picture. When Bryce, another friend from the days of ragtime, arrives, Morgan experiences a brief rally and asks to be driven to a place in the Taos Mountains he’s always found spiritual. On the mountaintop, the Parisian flapper, the ragtime dudes, and their strange, extended family find themselves at the threshold of a thin place in this charming sequel.

Dollface

Author : Renée Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451419200
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Dollface written by Renée Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies, and a new kind of woman—the flapper. Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. Bobbing her hair and showing her knees, the lipsticked beauty dazzles, doing the Charleston in nightclubs and earning the nickname “Dollface.” As the ultimate flapper, Vera captures the attention of two high rollers, a handsome nightclub owner and a sexy gambler. On their arms, she gains entrée into a world filled with bootleg bourbon, wailing jazz, and money to burn. She thinks her biggest problem is choosing between them until the truth comes out. Her two lovers are really mobsters from rival gangs during Chicago’s infamous Beer Wars, a battle Al Capone refuses to lose. The heady life she’s living is an illusion resting on a bedrock of crime and violence unlike anything the country has ever seen before. When the good times come to an end, Vera becomes entangled in everything from bootlegging to murder. And as men from both gangs fall around her, Vera must put together the pieces of her shattered life, as Chicago hurtles toward one of the most infamous days in its history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

Culture Makers

Author : Amy Koritz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252033841
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Culture Makers written by Amy Koritz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in economic and social organization: the emergence of rationalized work processes and expert professionalism; the advent of mass markets and the consequent necessity of consumerism as a behavior and ideology; and the urbanization of the population, in concert with the invention of urban planning and the recognition of specifically urban subjectivities. Koritz analyzes plays by Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, and Rachel Crothers; popular dance forms of the 1920s and the modern dance and choreography of Martha Graham; and literature by Anzia Yezierska, John Dos Passos, and Lewis Mumford.

Flapper

Author : Joshua Zeitz
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307523829
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Flapper written by Joshua Zeitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Flapper is an inside look at the 1920s. With tales of Coco Chanel, the French orphan who redefined the feminine form; Lois Long, the woman who christened herself “Lipstick” and gave New Yorker readers a thrilling entrée into Manhattan’s extravagant Jazz Age nightlife; three of America’s first celebrities: Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks; Dallas-born fashion artist Gordon Conway; Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascent and spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era; and more, this is the story of America’s first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness. Whisking us from the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre first caught the eye of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the Manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian Joshua Zeitz brings the 1920s to exhilarating life.

The Flapper's Scandalous Elopement

Author : Lauri Robinson
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488065942
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Flapper's Scandalous Elopement written by Lauri Robinson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this ring… They’re temporarily wed! Heiress Jane Dryer will do anything to escape her controlling father and the life of domestic drudgery he decrees—even elope with the handsome stranger she meets in a speakeasy! Wealthy railroad owner David Albright needs a temporary wife and Jane needs her independence, so the plan is to marry, then walk away. Only very soon, their fake marriage feels seductively real! Sisters of the Roaring Twenties Flappers finding love in Hollywood Book 1 – The Flapper’s Fake Fiancé Book 2 – The Flapper’s Baby Scandal Book 3 – The Flapper’s Scandalous Elopement “I loved this book, everything about it; the setting, the era, the clothes, the dialogue...everything. I was hooked.” —Chicks, Rogues and Scandals on Stolen Kiss with the Hollywood Starlet “Sweet, romantic and oh so passionate, I will also defy anyone that doesn't cry because I certainly did ... 5/5 stars” —Goodreads on Diary of a War Bride

From the Charred Remains

Author : Susanna Calkins
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250007895
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book From the Charred Remains written by Susanna Calkins and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much everyone else left standing, is doing her part to help the city clean up and recover. But their efforts come to a standstill when a couple of local boys stumble across a dead body that should have been burned up in the fire but miraculously remained intact—the body of a man who died not from the plague or the fire, but from the knife plunged into his chest. Searching for a purpose now that there's no lady in the magistrate's household for her to wait on, Lucy has apprenticed herself to a printmaker. But she can't help but use her free time to help the local constable, and she quickly finds herself embroiled in the murder investigation. It will take all of her wits and charm, not to mention a strong stomach and a will of steel, if Lucy hopes to make it through alive herself, in From the Charred Remains by Susanna Calkins.

Fate Keeps on Happening

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780245542862
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Fate Keeps on Happening written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flappers

Author : Judith Mackrell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374156085
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Flappers written by Judith Mackrell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Great Britain: Macmillan, 2013.

Capital of the World

Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762768193
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Capital of the World written by David Wallace and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of NewYork City in the roaring twenties.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context

Author : Bryant Mangum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619438
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context written by Bryant Mangum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald serves as a compelling and incisive chronicle of the Jazz Age and Depression Era. This collection explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with, and keenly observant of, the social, historical and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Original essays from forty international scholars survey a wide range of critical and biographical scholarship published on Fitzgerald, examining how it has evolved in relation to critical and cultural trends. The essays also reveal the micro-contexts that have particular relevance for Fitzgerald's work - from the literary traditions of naturalism, realism and high modernism to the emergence of youth culture and prohibition, early twentieth-century fashion, architecture and design, and Hollywood - underscoring the full extent to which Fitzgerald internalized the world around him.