{"id":18290,"date":"2017-11-11T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=18290"},"modified":"2017-11-11T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T13:56:57","slug":"graphic-review-jazz-age-chronicles-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/graphic-review-jazz-age-chronicles-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Novel Review: Jazz Age Chronicles, Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=adamsblog03-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0983630712&amp;asins=0983630712&amp;linkId=591f1b87be09d0f9c5c483e43f708228&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This black and white comic book collection features two stories set in the 1920s. Both feature Private Detective Ace Mifflin, a Boston-based Private Detective. He has many of the same vices as Sam Spade, but isn&#8217;t quite as good as Spade. Though\u00a0he is good enough to get the job done in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>In the first case, &#8220;The Case of the Beguiling Baroness,&#8221; Mifflin is hired to keep tabs on a baroness. A secret society is interested in her because of her dabbling in the black arts. When she dies, it&#8217;s just the start of the case. This one&#8217;s an intriguing mystery and a bit of a genre mash-up between a traditional private detective story and the strange tales featured in the Doc Savage and the Shadow pulp magazines. This one works okay, but Mifflin&#8217;s role in this is a bit\u00a0confused. He&#8217;s out of his element, and the hero is supposed to be Clifton Jennings, who hired him. This one could have worked better.<\/p>\n<p>The second case is, &#8220;Vote Early, Vote Often.&#8221; Mifflin gets in trouble, gets his license suspended, and runs into a whole lot of political corruption. All as he tries to help a friend get free of a murder charge. It&#8217;s a good noirish story with a neat mystery to unravel. Mifflin works far better in this story and he is in his element. Of the two tales in the book, I preferred this one more.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this is a decent graphic novel collection and a nice read if you&#8217;re a fan of 1920s&#8217; detective and pulp fiction stories.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3.75 out of 5<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -ms-word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;\"><em>This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -ms-word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;\"><em>If<\/em>\u00a0you<em>\u00a0enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your kindle.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This black and white comic book collection features two stories set in the 1920s. 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