The wicked city / Beatriz Williams.

By: Williams, Beatriz [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 366 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062405029 (hbk.); 0062405020 (hbk.); 9780062405012 (paperback); 000813264XSubject(s): 1898-1951 | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | Socialites -- Fiction | Nineteen twenties -- Fiction | Haunted places -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | FICTION / Historical | FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century | Haunted places | Nineteen twenties | Socialites | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) | New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction | New York (State) -- New YorkGenre/Form: Fiction. | History. | Novels. | Romance fiction. | Love stories. | Romance fiction. | Novels. DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3623.I55643 | W53 2017Summary: 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.Summary: 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.
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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.

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