Jazzage Stories

In glittering Jazz Age New York, Vivienne Laurent is a master thief posing as a wealthy French widow, charming her way through elite society while stealing priceless jewels from the rich. At a lavish garden party, she meets Jack Callahan: a smooth-talking Southern con artist running an oil investment scam of his own. Each immediately recognizes something dangerous in the other: intelligence, deception, and irresistible charm. As they circle one another through lies and stolen glances, their separate schemes begin to collide. But in a world built on illusion, attraction may be the most dangerous con of all.

"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.

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)

Short poem inspired by The Great Gatsby .

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)

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

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.

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:

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 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.

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)

"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)

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.

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 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)

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.