Mystery Writers of America Award-winner Mary Miley blends the glitz and glamour of 1920s America with a killer murder plot in this dazzling Roaring Twenties Mystery—a must-read for fans of Prohibition-era mysteries starring speakeasies, gangsters, murder, and more!
“Miley shows a deft touch and sets a blistering pace” DAVID BALDACCI
“Jessie’s travels bring to life the fascinating, vanished world of vaudeville” HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY
“Jessie truly is a honey” THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Readers who enjoy Jacqueline Winspear and Carola Dunn will want to follow this series” BOOKLIST
“For fans of . . . Katharine Schellman’s Nightingale Mysteries” LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Jessie’s amateur sleuth talents are called upon again when a movie projectionist is shot dead in this dazzling and intriguing Roaring Twenties Mystery.
Dark pasts harbour dark secrets.
Employed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Jessie Beckett has a busy time as Script Girl for Pickford-Fairbanks studios. Yet she also has a reputation as a skilled amateur sleuth.
So when a projectionist is shot dead at work and his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, Jessie is determined to uncover the murderer and his motive. But who was the mysterious man in the red coat who fired three shots at Joe Petrovitch? And how could he enter and leave a crowded theater without being noticed?
To find the answers, Jessie must delve into the dead man’s past and uncover dark secrets from another continent and another era. As she is to discover, the past has a long reach . . .
Readers of BARBARA HAMBLY’s Silver Screen Historical Mysteries, JACQUELINE WINSPEAR’s Masie Dobbs series, and CAROLA DUNN’s Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries will adore Mary Miley’s Roaring Twenties Mysteries with their Prohibition-era backdrop of speakeasies, vaudeville houses, gangsters, and murder!
PRAISE FOR MURDER IN DISGUISE:
“The murders are only the tip of the iceberg in this densely plotted tale . . . You can’t help cheering on the brave heroine and her young helper” Kirkus Reviews
“Engrossing . . . Aficionados of showbiz history will delight in the technical details of filmmaking in the silent era and the peripatetic lives of the performers. Readers will also get the lowdown on bootlegging, speakeasies, and gin joints. Series fans will be pleased” Publishers Weekly
“Snappily written, and Jessie is certainly a likable protagonist . . . for those who enjoy mysteries set in Hollywood’s Golden Age” Booklist
MORE GLAMOROUS ROARING TWENTIES MYSTERIES
1. The Impersonator
2. Silent Murders
3. Renting Silence
4. Murder in Disguise
5. Murder Off Stage
