Come at the King. Bootleggers' Chronicles, #5

Par : Sherilyn Decter
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  • FormatePub
  • ISBN978-1-9990014-9-0
  • EAN9781999001490
  • Date de parution15/08/2020
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  • ÉditeurSherilyn Decter

Résumé

Philadelphia, 1931. The party is over. The Roaring Twenties left the city with a headache and a Depression. Men who had steady work a year ago now walk the pavement all day for nothing. Savings are gone. Credit at the corner store is gone. Just about the only business in Philadelphia still turning a profit belongs to Mickey Duffy. Maggie Barnes is a long way from the widow who took in lodgers to keep a roof over her son's head.
She has an accounting practice, a mortgage paid off in full, and a boy who is nearly grown and asks harder questions than he used to. She has also just buried her father - ten years estranged, and reconciled barely in time. Seven years she has been working to bring Mickey Duffy down. She has never been closer. She has never been more tired. And Inspector Frank Geyer, who has walked this city as a ghost without ever understanding why he stayed, has finally begun to ask about his own family.
The trail leads back to a May night in 1844, when Philadelphia's volunteer firemen brawled in the street for the right to a fire plug while a church burned to the ground and a boy named Geyer ran through the smoke. Philadelphia has been making men like Mickey Duffy for a hundred years. Frank is about to discover just how personally. Come at the king, and you had best not miss. Come at the King is the fifth and final novel in the Bootleggers' Chronicles, a historical mystery series set in Prohibition-era Philadelphia.
For readers who love resourceful women, a partnership worth rooting for, and an ending that has been seven books in the making.
The Roaring Twenties and Prohibition were a fantasy land, coming right after the horrors and social upheaval of World War I. Even a century later, it all seems so exotic. Women got the vote, started working outside the home, and (horrors!) smoked and drank in public places. They even went on unchaperoned dates (gasp)! Corsets were thrown into the back of the closets, and shoes were discovered to be an addictive fashion accessory after hemlines started to rise.
And thanks to Prohibition, suddenly it was fashionable to break the law. The music was made in America- ragtime, delta blues, and of course jazz. Cocktails were created to hide the taste of the bathtub gin. Flappers were dancing, beads and fringes flying. Fedoras were tipped. And everyone was riding around in automobiles (aka struggle buggies and I leave it to your imagination why- wink.) The novels I've written grew out of that fascination.
If you haven't had a chance to visit my website, wander over and check it out at https://sherilyndecter.com. On it you'll find my blog with posts about 1920s fashion, history, as well as interesting research tidbits that have tweaked my interest. Growing up on the prairies and living next to the ocean, I am a creature of endless horizons. Writing allows me to discover what's just over the next one.
My husband and I have three amazing daughters, two spoiled grandchildren, and two bad dogs.