A late night visit from an old friend plunges Max and Allison into the baffling case of a New Jersey society couple found shot to death in a locked room. Along the way they encounter flappers, bootleggers, speakeasies, and a future TV star in a case that has more questions than answers. To make matters worse, the killer strikes again and the suspicious local police arrest Max for the crime!And that’s all in the first few days.Now Max has to find the real killer, if he can just stay out of jail long enough to do it.Based on a real case, Death of a Flapper is a roar through the Roaring 20s.The Max Hurlock Roaring 20s Mysteries are based on real-life cases and are set in the lawless Jazz Age, when illegal liquor gave rise to organized crime, bootleggers and rumrunners evaded the Prohibition Police, and flappers danced the night away in speakeasies. Though living on Maryland's deceptively quiet Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Max and Allison Hurlock get drawn into mysterious murder cases across the country, and along the way, meet such 1920s figures as Harry Houdini, Dorothy Parker, and Duke Ellington. The end notes of each book provide a summary of the real life case on which the story is based.
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