Review: Great entertainment
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
“Flappers, Flasks and Foul Play (A Jazz Age Mystery #1)” by Ellen Mansoor Collier “ is an elegant and hugely entertaining mystery novel set in Prohibition times and the Jazz Age of Southern Texan Galveston of 1920s.With great style and a fantastic sense of authenticity this book pulls out all fun registers of those days.Young newspaper employee Jasmine, Jazz, Cross, has big plans. Drawn into a murder investigation and trapped between legal and illegal alliances she is a great protagonist for the action that involves illegal boozing murder and gang war.Gossip and romantic interests come into play as well when handsome young Prohibition Agent James Burton raids her brother’s establishment.This is great fun in a setting that almost never fails to entertain and that fuels our imagination and nostalgia, regardless of the crimes.This novel utilises those trump cards, but besides all that it is well written, cleverly plotted and very enjoyable.