Review: High living in the roaring 20's
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2012
This fun mystery takes place in Los Angeles and is set in the 1920's, during Prohibition.Why I enjoyed this book:**I learned a lot about the 1920's and Prohibition.  This isn't a period in U.S. history that I was familiar with, so it's fun to read about it.**Jeffrey's description of life in Los Angeles and Hollywood made this time period come alive for me.**The story kept me on the edge of my seat, particularly during the last third of the book.  I couldn't put the book down, since I was dying to know what happened next.There were a few things I didn't care for in this book:**At times, the conversations between the characters seemed to drag on and on and didn't really add much to the story.**The description of the synchronized sound movie technology was too detailed.  This part of the book read more like a report about that technology.  While it is important to understand exactly what this technology was, it wasn't necessary to go into such detail.**There was also too much movie history mentioned in this book.For both the conversations and the detailed descriptions, having a good editor or even just a second set of eyes reading the book would have picked up on this.I really enjoyed this book in spite of these things.  I recommend this book to anyone who likes historical mysteries.  I am looking forward to reading about the future adventures of Matt Hudson, the main character!