DECO DAMES DEMON RUM And DEATH: 5 (Jazz Age Mystery)

When young Galveston Gazette society reporter Jazz Cross hears rumors of grave robbers at the Broadway Cemetery she and photographer Nathan Blaine investigate hoping to land a scoop. The newshawks witness meetings held by clandestine gangs and enlist the help of her beau Prohibition Agent James Burton who attempts to catch the elusive culprits red-handed.Meanwhile the supernatural craze takes Galveston by storm and Jazz is assigned to profile the society sets favorite fortune teller Madame Farushka. Sightings of a ghost bride haunting the Hotel Galvez intrigue Jazz who sets up a Ouija board reading and séance with the spiritualist. Did the bride-to-be drown herself--or was she murdered?Luckily Sammy Cook her black-sheep half-brother has escaped the Downtown Gang and now acts as the maître d for the Hollywood Dinner Club owned by rival Beach Gang leaders. During a booze bust the Downtown Gangs mob boss Johnny Jack Nounes is caught and Jazz worries: will Sammy be forced to testify against his former boss? Worse when a mystery man turns up dead Sammy is framed for murder and Jazz must solve both murders and help clear Sammys name. As the turf war between rival gangs rages on Jazz relies on her wits and moxie to rescue her brother and her friends before the Downtown Gang exacts its revenge.