The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits: Murder Mysteries from the Age of Bright Young Things

In Chicago and New York, in sleazy speakeasies and on Easy Street, to the strains of jazz and the beat of the Charleston, the twenties roared. The horrors of the Great War behind it, the decade went mad with abandon—and mad over the movies, radio, telephones, and the motorcar. But beneath the froth and the folly, the razzle and dazzle, lay a darker world, a hard and often violent world, for the twenties belonged as much to the gangster as they did to the flapper. The stories in this vastly entertaining collection of whodunnits crafted by talents like Amy Myers, Robert Randisi, Jon L. Breen, Edward D. Hoch, Marilyn Todd, and Mike Stotter reflect the allures—and the deadly dangers—of both those worlds. Selected for their setting in the decade after World War I ended, this collection of mystery stories includes contributions from Amy Myers, Robert Radisi, Jon L. Breen, Edward D. Hoch, Marilyn Todd, Mike Stotter, and others. Original. Greenwich Village is our enclave, our village, and we rarely venture east of Washington Square Park, unless of course it is for one of our fancy dress balls, which we hold at Webster Hall on Eleventh Street near Third Avenue.