Cahokia Jazz

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the best-selling author of Golden Hill . In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It''s 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. But in this 1922, things are a little different. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient indigenous city of Cahokia has lived on. It is now a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week of drama that will spill the secrets of this altered world, and bring it, against a soundtrack of jazz clarinets and wailing streetcars, either to destruction or rebirth. The multiple award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly-created, richly pleasure-giving, epically-scaled, wise-cracking, bone-breaking novel set in a golden age of wicked entertainments.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Spufford
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9780571381418
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38141-8
• No. of pages: 481
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Alternative History, Fiction: general and literary, Alternative history fiction