Review: Simply Excellent
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
“Gold-Diggers, Gamblers And Guns (A Jazz Age Mystery #3)” by Ellen Mansoor Collier is a hugely enjoyable mystery set in Texas during the lively and frivolous prohibition times. The 1920s provide a great potential for a most glamorous and exciting setting and this book has effortlessly sampled all the best parts of it.Jazz is a gossip news reporter, a foxy gal and a fantastic character.  She is perfect as the sole narrator of the story; a strong and clever woman who can surprise her opponents but who remains realistic for the attitudes of the times.On a date with prohibition agent James Burton she witnesses a fight between gamblers that gets out of hand. Burton is almost shot which is possibly related to the release of a notorious gang leader from prison.The plot thickens as two murders happen and Jazz has to clear not only James’s name but that of her half-brother, too.The setting is simply marvellous, the characters colourful but not too stereotypical, the mystery is well plotted and overall the book is simply great fun.