Jazzage Stories

It should be happy days. It's the Roaring Twenties and The Cupid/Archer Detective Agency is open for business. A little girl's body is found in a shallow grave right in the middle of the city's large park. Private investigators Florian Flix and Phalen Archer are at their wits end. A bungled investigation by the authorities may make it impossible to find the child's true killer. Archer is itching for some real detective work, but the only paying case involves a hysterical socialite who is determined to dig up the dirt on her husband, the financial wizard, Henry Lime. But either Henry is a saint or he covers his tracks perfectly. World War 1 still haunts both men. Flix is still tormented by horrendous nightmares, and Archer is doubting his faith. Archer turns to Father Tom Benjamin, only to find that the good Father may be hiding plenty of secrets of his own. 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)

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.

Hello, New Yorkers, Step into the roaring world of 1920s Manhattan, where jazz echoes through the streets, secrets flow as freely as the forbidden champagne, and the elite's lives are always under scrutiny. Welcome to the world of "Roaring Secrets: A Jazz Age Scandal." In this era of flappers and speakeasies, Blair Waldorf reigns supreme over the Upper East Side with her impeccable style and iron-clad ambition. But even in this dazzling age, keeping her family's legacy intact is a challenge, especially with her best friend, Serena van der Woodsen, constantly stirring up trouble with her carefree spirit and irresistible charm. Chuck Bass, the enigmatic heir to a vast fortune, controls the city's underground nightlife, running speakeasies that attract the rich and powerful. But in the dangerous world of prohibition, one misstep could mean disaster. Meanwhile, Nate Archibald, the golden boy, is caught between his family's expectations and his desire to forge his own path in a world full of temptations. From Brooklyn, aspiring writer Dan Humphrey observes the glamorous lives of the elite, eager to expose their secrets through his prose. His sister, Jenny, dreams of breaking into high society with her daring fashion designs, ready to do whatever it takes to succeed. In a time where power, betrayal, and passion intertwine, and every whisper could spark a scandal, keep your friends close and your secrets closer. In the glitzy and perilous world of the Roaring Twenties, everyone has something to hide. Stay tuned, New York. Gossip Girl

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.

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:

"Let them sing of the girls of long, long ago. Who were shocked if their elbow or stockings did show but I'll chant of the maidens whose ankles are free to show their half-socks, and the shape of their knees, let them praise those back numbers who turned in their toes and panted and fainted when MEN would propose; compared to the short-skirted, bob-haired fry who meet all proposals with right to the eye. Let them shed all their tears in a crocodile pour for the simple simp sister who flourished of yore but I'll cast my vote in the way I fell- for the girl self-reliant, bright, snappy and RIGHT" Palatyne Flâner grew up in a middle-class family in 1900's France, her perfect cookie-cutter life was pulled apart by war and death. Taking her life into her own hands, she runs off to join the nurses in the front line, there she meets the fiery spirit that is Phryne Fisher; together, the two patch wounds and comfort the injured soldiers till the war is won. Unsatisfied with the life she had returned to, Palatyne follows Phyane to the hot, vast and diverse country of Australia, where they soon become the unexpected solvers of complex murders.

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.

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.

What would make you pull the trigger? When Reed Kimball is found with a bullet between the eyes, the police are faced with so many suspects, they don't know where to begin. A gambler, a speculator, and a love 'em and leave 'em kinda guy, Kimball is a middle-aged, toupee-wearing louse who magnetically attracts women by his sheer lack of interest. On the heels of their triumphant resolution, dubbed the Canary Case, private investigators Florian Flix and Phalen Archer find themselves boarding a train for Hollywood. Movie mogul, Alfred Steppson, has made them and offer they can't refuse. He wants to make a move to immortalize them in film. Once they arrive in Hollywood, glitz and glamour threaten to turn their heads. A secret is being kept from the stars and major players in Tinseltown. In the land of make believe, nothing is as it seems. A dream factory and a magnificent estate warp into a nightmare. Booze and drugs and a legion intent on bringing down Steppson's empire clash in a twisted web of lies and deception. Who shot Reed Kimball? And why? 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)

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.

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.

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)

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?

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)

A mother's love remains unchanged by time or distance; as for Katherine, even beyond the grave.

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.

Lucia and Charley are the products of Old New York's ruling elite. Prestige. Wealth. Tradition. Scandal. No one is immune. Not Charley, reckless, blithe courtier of trouble, heiress to the Montrose fortune, who has been conspicuously absent for over a year without a word of truth or explanation. Nor Lucia, as docile a daughter as any parent could wish for, carrying secrets of her own, slowly awakening to a yearning for things beyond obeisance to the established order, as deeply ingrained as Old New York's fascination for, and fear of, scandal. Sailing into the summer of 1929, on the eve of the Black Tuesday Wall Street Crash and a world on the brink of change, Charley and Lucia must keep their wits sharp about them in the pleasure capitals of the Continent and on the Nile to steer their futures away from peril. There are men and temptations to resist, intrigues and mysteries to untangle, secrets to hide, lies to weave, and jewel thieves to outsmart while, back home in New York and on the Exchange, the world rumbles and thunders ominously by. More hangs in the balance than the frivolities of the Jazz Age, the glitzy parties in London and the lures of Paris, automobile races, leisurely flirtations on the French Riviera, opulent Egyptian nights, and the catching of a brilliant matrimonial prize. This Grand Tour could prove to be the making of two young women, a prelude to freedom and independence, to saving and building an empire... Or perhaps merely an invitation to rebellion, scandal and unmitigated disaster. Running away or running towards? Tick-tock.

It's murder in the Roaring Twenties. The world is changing faster than the speeding trains that crisscross the country. The 1920s are a dangerous time. Booze is illegal, and mobsters are making a killing off Prohibition. The good times are in high gear. But is it all a façade? A house of cards? Jack Delancy is a high-roller who appears to have it all: a mansion, a family, and even a moll on the side. He has his fingers in a speakeasy and other lucrative, but shady enterprises. He spends his fortune as if money is free, and there is no tomorrow. But there is always tomorrow. Cupid's Archer is the second book in the Cupid/Archer detective mystery series. Phalen Archer and Florian Valentine Flix on the trail of a murderer. Follow these two sleuths as they set out to solve this whodunit mystery! 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)

Meg van Helsing knows the illusion of safety is fleeting, but for a moment, just a moment, she let herself rest. But the past is a relentless hunter, and when startling news arrives from the Continent, Meg is drawn into a nightmare that began more than four hundred years ago. A legacy of sorcery and violence, cruelty and terror, pursues her and her friends, a legacy written into the blood of the man she loves. Scarlet eyes are watching from the shadows, and this time, they're fixed on Geordie. To keep his dark past at bay and save the man he has become, Meg must reach deep - into magic, the power of fear, and the terrible bonds of blood.