Jason Farris
Calling Shots
New York City. The Roaring Twenties. Hot Jazz, Guns and Bootleggers.
For shopgirl Slender McNally, it's not the exhilarating life she seeks. In the aftermath of a tragedy, Slender struggles to keep her family together and her deli afloat. Her mother, rarely present, is consumed nightly with speakeasies while her sister, an aspiring stage actress, is fixated only on becoming a star. But when a routine accounting trip leads Slender to check on an unsettled debt, things begin to really rev and roar. She unknowingly gets swept up by the mysterious Joey the Mouse as he whisks her off to the hottest speakeasy around--The Sudsbucket, operated by celebrated gangster Soapy Callahan.…