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The Jazz Files (Poppy Denby Investigates, Bk 1)
The Jazz Files - Poppy Denby Investigates, Bk 1 Author:Fiona Veitch Smith Introducing Poppy Denby, a young journalist in London during the Roaring Twenties, investigating crime in the highest social circles! — In 1920, twenty-two year old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a suffragette who was injured in battles with the police in 1910, is a feisty and well-conn... more »ected lady.
Poppy has always dreamed of being a journalist, and quickly lands a position as an editorial assistant at the Daily Globe. Then one of the paper's writers, Bert Isaacs, dies suddenly--and messily. Poppy and her attractive co-worker, photographer Daniel Rokeby begin to wonder if it wasn't a natural death, but murder.
After she writes a sensational exposé, The Globe's editor invites her to dig deeper. Poppy starts sifting through the dead man's files and unearths a major mystery which takes her to France--and into deadly danger.« less