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The Jazz Bird
by Holden, Craig
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/None
- ISBN 10
- 0743212967
- ISBN 13
- 9780743212960
- Seller
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
$10.00$8.00
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About This Item
Advance Reader's Copy of the fourth novel by this author. Someone put a "Staff Reading" sticker on the front cover. In near fine condition.
Synopsis
An exquisitely written novel of love and betrayal, of money and power, set at the apex of that time of glitz and innocence known as the Jazz Age CINCINNATI, 1927... Lawyer George Remus became the country's biggest bootlegger, grossing over $80 million until his arrest. Upon his release from prison, he learns that his beautiful wife, Imogene, has left him and that his bank accounts are empty. On the morning of their divorce, he runs her car off the road in the middle of rush hour in Eden Park and shoots her to death. Shocked and fascinated by this horrible crime, the country gears up for a sensational trial pitting the man known as ""the king of the bootleggers"" against Chief Prosecutor Charlie Taft, the youngest son of the former president. The trial is a national spectacle, a lens focused on the fabulous rise and fall of the Remus empire and the tragic love story within it, and an attempt to answer some tantalizing questions: What actually happened to the fortune? What are the motives of the federal agent who brought Remus down? What complex emotions and desires, leading ultimately to the ruin of three men, really lie within the heart of the woman known as the Jazz Bird? Based on a true story, The Jazz Bird is at once a love story, a crime novel, and the tale of the courtroom battle between two powerful men whose respective futures hang in the balance.
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- Bookseller
- Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio8831
- Title
- The Jazz Bird
- Author
- Holden, Craig
- Format/Binding
- Tradepaper
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advance Reader's Copy
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0743212967
- ISBN 13
- 9780743212960
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thriller; Historical Fiction; Mystery;
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About the Seller
Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
St. Catharines, Ontario
About Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
My wife and I have been operating Scene of the Crime Books since 1996. In 2004 we attempted to go against the market and open a storefront on Oakville Ontario. In August 2006 we closed the brick and mortar and humbly went back to just internet. We now do internet and appointment only through our home. So if you're in our neighborhood let us know 24 hours ahead of time. Thank you. Don Longmuir
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