02042cam a2200325 4500 758835910 TxAuBib 20140424120000.0 ||||||t20132012||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780989417006 pbk. $25.00 098941700X pbk. $25.00 TxGR TxAuBib Collier, Ellen Mansoor. Flappers, flasks and foul play [Book] / Ellen Mansoor Collier. First edition. DecoDame Press, 2012. ©2013. 295 p. ; 23 cm. Jazz age mystery, A ; 1 Signed by Author. Before Las Vegs, Galveston, Texas was called the "Sin City of the Southwest." Real-life rival gangs fight over booze and bars during Prohibition in this soft-boiled Jazz Age mystery, inspired by actual events. Jasmine Cross, a 21-year-old society reporter, feels caught between two clashing cultures; the seedy speakeasy underworld and the snooty social circles she covers in the Galveston Gazette. After a big-shot banker with a hidden past collapses at the Oasis---a speakeasy secretly owned by her black-sheep half-brother, Sammy Cook--Jazz suspects foul play. Soon Prohibition Agent James Burton raids the Oasis, threatening to shut it down if Sammy doesn't cooperate. Suspicious, he pursues Jazz, hoping for informaiton and more, but she refuses to rat on Sammy. As turf wars escalate between the Downtown and Beach gangs, Sammy is accused of murder. To fin d the killer, Jazz must risk her life and career, exposing the dark side of Galveston's glittering society. 20140424. Jasmine Cross (Fictitious character) Fiction. Gambling Galveston (Tex) Fiction. Casinos Fiction. Casinos Galveston (Tex) Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. A Jazz age mystery ; 1. RV8