Summary
Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Volstead Act (the National Prohibition Act, (H.R. 6810)), which went into effect on October 28, 1919 when the 66th Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s veto (https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-Volstead-Act/), Susanna Calkins joins me at the historic Deer Path Inn (https://www.thedeerpathinn.com/our-story) to chat about her new Speakeasy Murders mystery, Murder Knocks Twice.
Susanna Calkins is the author of the award-winning Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy Murders (Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s)
Learn more about MURDER KNOCKS TWICE (2019)
Book 2 in the series, The Fate of a Flapper, is out in July 2020
Check out her Agatha-nominated short story “A Postcard for the Dead”
Susanna is also:
Vice-President of Sisters in Crime Chicagoland Chapter
Instructor, StoryStudio Chicago
Twitter: @scalkins3
s.calkins.nu@gmail.com
Instagram: scalkinsauthor
Murder Knocks Twice is listed in CRIME NOVELS IN THE AGE OF PROHIBITION, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 BY ASHLEY WEAVER, https://crimereads.com/crime-novels-in-the-age-of-prohibition/
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