1920s

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Tango in Madeira

Jim Williams

English · 2013 edition

Set in Madeira after WWI, a disillusioned ex-soldier tries to rescue his family’s failing wine business as the island fills with real figures of the era — an exiled emperor, Agatha Christie at Reid’s Hotel, George Bernard Shaw learning to tango — and a murder draws him in.

Fiction & Literature

Moon of Madness

Sax Rohmer

English · original edition 1927

A Jazz-Age romantic spy thriller set in the glittering waters off Madeira, by the creator of Fu Manchu — passion, deception and intrigue as a hunt unfolds for documents that could topple a royal house.