Review: Go Back to the Roaring '20s
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2012
Play Him Againby Jeffrey Stone is a rip roaring read! It's set in Los Angeles and Hollywood in the Roaring '20s, with bootleggers, gangsters, grifters, silent films and the emerging talking pictures. There are cameos by Bugs Moran, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin.Very well researched and interesting thriller. The story concerns the protagonist Hud, a bootlegger who is interested in developing talking pictures, even though many of the big studios feel THE JAZZ SINGER is just a passing fad and want to keep making silent films because they are cheaper. (Some things never change!) The central storyline is about Hud hunting down the killer of his boyhood friend Danny, a grifter and con artist who is murdered by being beaten up and sent in his car off the Santa Monica pier.A very different kind of mystery-thriller and I quite enjoyed it. Great atmosphere of the '20s which is well before my time. Highly recommended for your reading list.