Great Depression
Dancing Dead
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This is the sixth in Woodworth’s Shaker mystery series that takes place during the Great Depression of the ’30s. The action returns ...Read Review
Murder at the President’s Door
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A dead body is found just outside President Roosevelt’s door. Preferring that the murder be kept from the public, First Lady Eleanor ...Read Review
Someone to Watch Over Me
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The third offering in Churchill’s Grace and Favor series is by far her best. The book chronicles the lives of siblings Lily ...Read Review
Through a Glass Darkly
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This is the second novel in a trilogy depicting life in the rural south during the late 1920s. In Behold, This Dreamer, Janson ...Read Review
Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders
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This is Goulart’s fourth in his series featuring Groucho Marx as a detective aided and abetted by Frank Denby, the writer for ...Read Review
The Red Heifer
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Told from the point of view of a first-generation Jewish immigrant, only five when the story begins, this work deals with the trials ...Read Review
The Savages in Love and War
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Having survived WWI and the Roaring Twenties, the third and fourth generation of Savages must maintain the family fortune in 1932. Although they live ...Read Review
Killing Gifts
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During the Depression, Americans often found themselves poor and hungry. The fortunate who lived near the Hancock Shaker Village outside of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ...Read Review
Coney
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Harry Catzker is a Jewish boy growing into adulthood on Coney Island during the 1930s. His life is intertwined with a cast of ...Read Review
A Student of Weather
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Maurice Dove, a botanist and student of weather, journeys from Ottawa to rural Saskatchewan in the mid-1930s to analyze the climate of ...Read Review
