Cet auteur explore l'histoire, offrant des perspectives sur le passé à travers ses écrits. Avec un profond intérêt pour l'histoire américaine et les études muséales, il transporte les lecteurs dans des époques révolues. Son œuvre comprend de nombreuses publications et des livres de non-fiction qui éclairent divers sujets. Pour son plaisir, il écrit également des romans policiers se déroulant dans les vibrantes années folles.
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...
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.
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 ...
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 .
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.
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.