Lilly's Ransom.Lilly's Ransom Ensley Williams Aventine Press 1023 4th Avenue #204, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA 92101 1593303580, $12.95 Quoting from the back cover: "The year is 1921. The Great War is over, the Jazz Age Noun 1. Jazz Age - the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism has begun, and Lilly Harrison's husband has fled to New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , leaving her to face the dangerous bootleggers and narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. dealers of Tampa. With the help of her best friend and her courtly and kind father, Lilly begins to rebuild her life, but she has a decision to make-and an enormous price to pay." Lilly's Ransom is a good little mystery and well written. It's believable and carries the reader right along. I can't say that the writing is anything exceptional, but it does work and that's what is important. I certainly can recommend this little novel to mystery readers, particularly those who like stories that take place in different eras. |
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