Jack & Susan in 1933
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Descrizione dell’editore
In this unique time-shift romance series, two young lovers find each other—once again—as trouble brews in Depression Era New York City.
Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. And somehow, they always acquire a shaggy white dog on the way to falling in love.
In 1933, Jack and Susan are both married to the Wrong People. Their respective spouses aren’t so awful as to inspire homicide, but when one of them turns up dead, Susan becomes the cops’ favorite suspect. Thank heaven Jack is there—along with his friends, the intrepid Scotty and Zelda—to prevent a terrible miscarriage of justice!
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It is 1913, and the nation's leading movie companies are headquartered in New York brownstones and the shooting lots are in nearby Fort Lee, N.J. Susan Bright begins writing in this disreputable new business after a broken leg ends her fledgling career as a Broadway actress. Jack Beaumont may be the heir to millions, but he assumes the role of an impoverished inventor to win Susan's love. Together with her three-legged dog, Tripod, they do battle in the "patents war'' and follow the film companies to Hollywood. McDowell's affection for and knowledge of the period are strongly evident, and his plot, which draws on the conventions of contemporaneous popular fiction, is properly melodramatic, improbable and romantic. Although the novel is somewhat thin, it constitutes a pleasant love story with a colorful background.
