TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Beatriz TI - The wicked city SN - 9780062405029 (hbk.) AV - PS3623.I55643 W53 2017 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York, NY PB - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Fiction KW - Socialites KW - Nineteen twenties KW - Haunted places KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - FICTION / Historical KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century KW - fast KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - History KW - 1898-1951 KW - Novels KW - Romance fiction KW - Love stories KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N2 - 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 ER -