Cahokia jazz [electronic resource]

Spufford, Francis, 1964-2023

Audiobooks

Find it!
Remove Cahokia jazz [electronic resource] from your current list Save Cahokia jazz [electronic resource] to your current list

Total copies: 1

Available: 1

Availability by location

Place reservation

Summary

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. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on - 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 that will spill the city's secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth.