The Wicked City: A stunning love story set in the roaring twenties

✍ Scribed by Williams, Beatriz

• Book ID: 100685651
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; William Morrow
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 298 KB
• Series: Wicked City series 1
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)--1898-1951., New York (State), New York (State)--New York.
• ISBN: 0062405020

✦ Synopsis

Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.;1998: Discovering her banker husband has a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes to Greenwich Village. Her musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when noise strikes up-- laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the building hosted one of the city's most notorious speakeasies. 1924: Flapper Geneva "Gin" Kelly is a regular at the Christopher Club. Caught up in a raid, Gin strikes a bargain with Revenue agent Oliver Anson to catch her stepfather, Duke Kelly, one of Appalachia's most notorious bootleggers.

✦ Subjects

New York (State) -- New York