Jazzage Stories

The Old Shelter is a speakeasy, you can only enter if you know the password. It stands in the heart of the Black Belt of Chicago and it hides a dark past. People know. They know why the speakeasy is haunted. Please enter and make yourself at ease.

In 1922, tea-totaling police chief Harry French has all but eliminated the illegal liquor trade in Columbus, Ohio, but a new batch of hooch known as "the Devil's due" is sending people to the hospital in droves. When one of her best friends falls victim and the police fail to take action, 16 year old Druscilla "Dru" Faust is on the case, using her knowledge of chemistry and investigative technique, she'll have to find the bootleggers before they find her. If you enjoy Nancy Drew, you might like Dru. Updated (almost) every day.

New York City is a wild and terrific city to all but Kay who has trouble fitting into the spontaneous lifestyle. With his sickly father thousands of miles away, his only motivation to root himself here is for the sake of returning a richer man - until he meets Fleur de Lis, the woman of his dreams and the temptation of his nightmares.

Subtitled "The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady", this is the story of Lorelei Lee, a former actress and social climber who makes her way into the glittering social life of the Jazz Age. Told in the first person, the novel takes the form of Lorelei's diary and records events in the final months before her marriage to the wealthy Henry Spoffard.

I know it's not the best but I wrote in one night for history. Hopefully one day I will be able to edit it and make it better. You have been warned.

Set after World War I, Lucy Pixies runs away from her home in England to make a new life in America with the help of her childhood friend, Dave. Lucy makes her new life as a superhero and jazz singer at the jazz club Nebula. There at the jazz club, three other superheros already work there. Follow Lucy's adventure as she learns of her mother's secrets and just why she has the powers she has. Lucy will learn the extent of her powers: to see people's past and all the possibilities for someone's future, and what they are meant for. Also, along the way Lucy meets her greatest foe and fall heads over heals in love.

Achille Poirot, twin brother of the Belgian detective made famous by Agatha Christie, lives in the new Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Intrigue and mystery haunt the Poirot family. In this story, Achille must solve a burglary that may have been committed by a ghost. Join him as he rubs elbows with the high society of 1930s New York City.

Captain Nemo (after World War I/in the 1920s)

Book 1 in the Love of the Decades Trilogy Lillian grew up with high society parents. Her life was always set and stone. After she graduates from college she is thrown into the business world. But one night after work she goes to a hidden underground club and discovers a whole new world. She lives a double life now. One as a respectable business-woman, the other as a flapper who loves to sing. Harold is an up and coming lawyer at his father's firm. One night him and his co-workers decide to go to this club. That was the night he saw her for the very first time. *** All rights reserved to harrysbeebee Cover made by myself Started: April 7th, 2018 Finished:

In 1925 Harlem NY, 17 year old Samira was a typical teenager. She spent time with her best friends, brothers, mother, and potential "boyfriend" she met at her new school. But what sets her apart from other teenagers, is that she's a black 17 year old teenage girl who lives in the poor, predominantly black area of New York City. 20 year old Wyatt Dalton who just finished attending college has graduated and returned back home to his home town in Long Island. He's ready to start pursing a career in the family business, except Wyatt isn't really that excited to be the next in line to take charge of his father's business. Wyatt feels like there must be something more for him than this boring, rich, white suburban life. He soon finds out later when he crosses paths with the love of his life...

With the shadow of the Titanic tragedy hanging over their heads, the survivors strive together to rebuild their lives amidst the hardships of the 1920s. This is the sequel to When We Meet on that Distant Shore.

It was supposed to be a fun-filled long weekend. A luxury yacht filled with beautiful people. Stars of the silver screen. A movie director. A spiritualist. A hedonist. A doctor and his girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong? A murder mystery whodunit set in 1920, The Enchanted Ingénue is dark tale of intrigue. When a beautiful spiritualist who claims to talk to the dead is found poisoned, Madison Quest must find the murderer. But even Mother Nature seems intent on stopping him. A colossal storm is brewing in the middle of an uncaring ocean. A yacht full of suspects who all have secrets. Will the culprit be stopped?

In the age of jazz, and an ambitious young society-enter the world of Viola English. A young British socialite who set sail on RMS Olympic-to the United States for her eighteenth birthday. 🚩working on the cover, title and a better description. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are strictly from the authors imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely fictional.

In 1920s Paris a reclusive artist discovers her muse in a charismatic jazz musician who performs at a hidden speakeasy for women. As their relationship deepens, they navigate societal prejudice and the singer's secret ties within a dangerous underground movement.

ALTERNATE HISTORY #1 Place Blooming Awards (JULY 2017) #1 Place Reach for the Stars Awards (SEPTEMBER 2017) #3 Place The Dreamcatcher Awards (JULY 2017) The big floods in 1870 changed the geography of the South. The survivors took years to settle down again and recreate society once more. A few generations later, Annabelle Mcgoldnick is engaged to a mysterious businessman from New Paris and plucked away from her simple life in Eauville, where her friends and family were all she knew. Reed Whitacre, her husband, is holding his past and its secrets well hidden for the young woman. He introduces her in a life of glamour and makebelief, a dangerous world from which he tries to protect her. But his past catches up with him and the risks he has taken, are demanding their toll. Separated by their enemies, Annabelle tries to rescue her husband, accompanied by some unlikely companions. A band of four completely different women learn that the world they have been living in their entire lives is nothing but a pretty facade for the dark secrets it holds. The mission to rescue one man soon turns into a mission to save all what's dear to them. One wife. One bitter fiancé. One housekeeper. One lady of the night. cover: @mythologik slow updates #367 IN HISTORICAL FICTION (JULY 2017)

The mysterious widow Claire Darling holds a ball at her estate every year - and you can be sure that something scandalous happens there every time. This is the story of one such scandal that involves a mysterious guest. A short story written for the "A masked Valentine's and a secret" contest run by the Dangerous Love profile.

"New Orleans in 1926 was a place where music welled up from every side street, storefront, park bench, and club. Trumpets quivered, trombones blurted, accordions purred, and bass drums thumped until they were tight enough to burst open and wreck the parade line. It was a place where people went to get loose-lipped on bourbon and sweet and heavy bread pudding, and where dreams went to either take root in that fertile Mississippi River delta or shrivel up like a head hung in some old vodou home. It was a place of magic, sensuality, and risk, where the surface was just as vibrant as the underworld..."

It's the Roaring Twenties, and a murderer is on the loose at Beastly House - a lavish estate turned posh sanitarium for wealthy folks trying to dry out, to ride out a storm, or hide out from Life. Detective Phalen Archer is assigned to the case. Working with his old war buddy, Florian Flix, the duo begin their investigation. But the case leaves them with more questions than answers. A maid has been brutally strangled, but her body shows all the signs of poisoning. Is there more than one killer lurking on the grounds of Beastly House? Can Flix and Archer solve the mystery and uncover the killer before someone else is murdered? The Cupid/Archer Mystery Series: 1. Beastly House 2. Cupid's Archer (A Cupid/Archer Mystery) 3. The Dust of Death (A Cupid/Archer Mystery) 4. Ashes of Yesterday (A Cupid/Archer Mystery)