num_pages: 287
description: Boardwalk Empire meets The Great Gatsby in this soft-boiled Jazz Age mystery inspired by actual events. Prohibition is in full swing in 1920s Galveston Texas: the Sin City of the Southwest. Jasmine Cross a young society reporter feels caught between two clashing cultures: the seedy speakeasy underworld and the snooty social circles she covers in the Galveston Gazette. During a night out with her best friend Jazz witnesses a bar fight at the Oasis--a speakeasy secretly owned by her black-sheep half-brother Sammy Cook. But when a big-shot banker with a hidden past collapses there and later dies she suspects foul play. Was it an accident or murder?Soon new Prohibition Agent James Burton raids the Oasis threatening to shut it down if Sammy doesn't talk. Suspicious he pursues Jazz but she refuses to rat on Sammy. As turf wars escalate between two real-life rival gangs Sammy is accused of murder. To find the killer Jazz must risk her life and career exposing the dark side of Galveston's glittering society.
language: English
title: Flappers, Flasks and Foul Play
publisher: None