Welcome to Broadway - and to an unthinkable crime! Former theatre starlet turned amateur sleuth Jessie Beckett gets mixed up in murder when an on-stage shooting turns all too real in this thrilling historical mystery set in the Jazz Age.
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This author delves into history, offering insights into the past through their writings. With a deep interest in American history and museum studies, they draw readers into bygone eras. Their work includes extensive publications and nonfiction books that illuminate various topics. For enjoyment, they also craft mysteries set in the vibrant Roaring Twenties.
- 2023
- 2022
Summer, 1924. Medium's assistant Maddie Pastore is shocked when she lucks into a free pair of tickets to glamorous nightclub Early's and recognizes the star performer: it's her long-lost little sister, Sophie. But before the sisters can meet again, Maddie receives disturbing news. Sophie's been thrown in jail, charged with first-degree murder ...
- 2021
December 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore feels fortunate to be employed by well-meaning fake medium Carlotta Romany. It's not work she's proud of, but she's proud of how well she does it. But when her investigations into a new client get her mixed up with Chicago's violent gangs, she'll need all her wits about her if she's to make it out alive.
- 2021
Chicago, 1924. When pregnant young widow Maddie Pastore isinvited to help a fake medium, she seizes the chance. She needs the money, andwhile she's not proud of her work investigating Madam Carlotta's clients, she'sproud of how well she does it. But when she unearths evidence of a dark crime,she and her baby are put in mortal danger .
- 2017
Murder in Disguise
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
A projectionist is shot dead and his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, but who shot Joe Petrovitch? And how did the murderer leave the movie theatre without being seen? Jessie must go into the dead man's past and uncover dark secrets from another continent and another era...
- 2016
Renting Silence
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Jessie is asked by Hollywood actress Mary Pickford if she can do some private investigating. A girl was found stabbed in her bedroom with another woman lying unconscious next to her, a bloody knife in her hand. Jessie must hone her amateur detective skills and travel through twenties Hollywood to prove the girls innocence before she hangs.