Great Depression
Sweeping Up Glass
After reading Carolyn Wall’s debut novel, I literally could not move. With its haunting images of racial bias from the…
Foxfire
This novel, first published in 1951, is set in New York City and the Arizona in the 1930s. Amanda Lawrence,…
Death Was In The Picture
Times are tough for Depression-era girl Friday Kitty Pangborn and her PI boss Dexter Theroux in their run down LA…
$panish Fly
$panish Fly (the dollar sign indicates the main characters’ preoccupation) is set in 1939, in the ‘dustbowl’ of the south-eastern…
Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness
Eliot Ness, the real-life lawman who took down Al Capone, is appointed Safety Director of Cleveland, a city that in…
The Affair of the Mutilated Mink
This is a delightful 1930s English country house murder mystery, the second in the series set in the Earl…
The Man Who Killed Shakespeare
In 1932, Shakespeare, New Mexico, is barely surviving the Depression and quietly, steadily slipping downhill. Lett Halsey has inherited…
Dreamers of the Day
(1) Mary Doria Russell takes readers from post-World War I Ohio to Egypt and back again in this roman à…
Serpent Box
The author’s debut novel focuses on the Flints, a family of Pentecostal preachers from Depression-era and postwar Leatherwood, Tennessee.…
Scottsboro
In Alabama in 1931, young people hitching rides on a freight train have a brawl. A group of white…
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