Jazz Age Chronicles #1

A golden-hued pulp aesthetic sets the mood for this 2011 collection from Transfuzion Publishing, as the cover presents a hard-boiled detective in a wide-brimmed fedora clutching a pistol alongside a suited figure, with the silhouette of a mysterious, hooded woman looming large behind them. Jazz Age Chronicles Volume One packages two stories — "The Case of the Beguiling Baroness" and "Vote Early & Often" — promising the kind of smoky, Prohibition-era intrigue that fans of period crime fiction will find hard to resist. At $16.99, it's a handsome entry point into a world where dames are dangerous and everyone's got an angle.