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Lädt ... Passing Fancies (A Julia Kydd Novel Book 2) (Original 2020; 2020. Auflage)von Marlowe Benn (Autor)
Werk-InformationenPassing Fancies von Marlowe Benn (2020)
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   nancyread | Jul 26, 2023 |  Review of the Lake Union Publishing hardcover (2020) The fiction of the post-World War I era of the 1920-30's has been a long time favourite of mine. It has some of my most loved works by Fitzgerald and Hemingway. It includes the "Golden Age of Crime" by writers such as Christie and Sayers. So a lost generation/jazz-age detection series combined with a love of books and publishing is like catnip to me. The second of the series, Passing Fancies, carries on with amateur sleuth Julia Kydd investigating a murder at a Harlem nightclub where a new friend of hers is the main suspect. Singer Eva Pruitt has written a book called Harlem Angel which has been the subject of a bidding war among New York publishers. The book's manuscript is held hostage by shady nightclub owner and the retrieval of the book seems to be the motive for the crime. As previously, Marlowe Benn adds fictionalized versions of real-life publishing characters into her historical fiction. The main examples of this were Carl Van Vechten fictionalized as Pablo Duveen and Bennett Cerf fictionalized as Austen Hurd. Publisher Horace Liveright of Boni & Liveright appears as himself. I thoroughly enjoyed this second work of what is expected to be a continuing series. The first book was Relative Fortunes (2019). It involved a mystery centred around the suspicious death of an American suffragette. I discovered the Julia Kydd series through the excellent selection at Toronto's mystery book store Sleuth of Baker Street. Trivia Marlowe Benn is actually a pseudonym of writer Margaret L. Benton. (  ) alanteder | Sep 20, 2020 | Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheJulia Kydd (2)
Julia Kydd returns in a new mystery set in the beguiling world of the Harlem Renaissance, where reckless revelry leads to devastating crimes. When stylish young bibliophile Julia Kydd returns to 1920s New York, she's determined to launch her own private press. Julia's aspirations take her into the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary movement unlike any she's known--where notions of race, sexuality, and power are slippery, and identities can be deceptively fluid. At a risqué soiree, Julia befriends singer Eva Pruitt, whose new book is rumored to reveal lurid details about the Harlem nightlife. But Leonard Timson, a local nightclub owner, is furious when he suspects he's the inspiration for a violent character in the book. By morning, Timson is dead, and both Eva and her manuscript are missing. Julia finds herself immersed in a case as troubling as Jazz Age race relations. More questions than answers surface about Eva's mysterious world, and powerful interests conspire to protect dangerous secrets. Still, no man can stand between Julia and the truth: appalled by violent injustice, she must use her wit and guile to find the killer. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyBewertungDurchschnitt: (3.5)
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