Chandler writes with a love of the 1930s Art Deco era in New York. Her protagonist is a vibrant woman (like Chandler herself) who’s an aide to the larger-than-life Mayor LaGuardia, has to fight mobsters on both sides of the Atlantic who run the crooked pinball rackets, the precursor of our slot machines. Along the way we’re introduced to another side of the 1930s, art and positivity and building.