Cahokia Jazz

First Edition.
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 a skyscraper roof.
It’s 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. But in this 1922, things are a little different.
Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia has lived on. It is now 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 gunfire and clarinets, either to destruction or rebirth.
The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in a golden age of wicked entertainments.