A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow.

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I.

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband,...

After disappointments surrounding a Dixie barbershop competition and the local telephone system breakdown throw the community in turmoil, sheriff Norris makes a perspective-changing discovery while confronting a notorious bootlegger.

Spring 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR; but there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens.

Two very different women seeking divorces in 1930s Reno meet and form an unlikely friendship that is complicated by the handsome young ranch hand who befriends both-and who finds his life unexpectedly upturned by one.

The Christmas season in 1934 Darling, Alabama, finds the Dahlias lending their talents to a new bakery, the biggest puzzle of Charlie's career, an exploited young performer, and Sheriff Norris' investigation at a nearby prison farm.

In the summer of 1933, in Los Angeles, no-nonsense secretary Liesl Weiss is the sole supporter of two children, an opinionated mother, and a troubled brother. Leon Lewis is a Jewish lawyer who has watched Adolf Hitler's rise to power--and the increase in anti-Semitism in America--with growing alarm. He believes Nazi agents are working to seize control of Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine the world has ever known. The trouble is, authorities...

After being sold to the circus in 1931 by her parents, Lilly Blackwood develops a fateful attachment to the elephants she works with, while twenty years later, Julia Blackwood, inheriting her family's estate, learns of Lilly's existence and the family's dark secrets.

As the members of the garden club in Darling, Alabama, prepare to plant roses for their annual Confederate Day celebration, they find themselves distracted by a series of mysteries involving stolen funds, a secret code and a local resident's odd behavior.

While traveling from London to Kingfisher Hill to discretely investigate murder allegations against a wealthy client's wife, Hercule Poirot swaps seats with a nervous train passenger before a second killing is complicated by a series of impossible confessions.