The Great James Masters Series

The Great James Masters is a fictional back story inspired by “Gatsby,” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, by Richard Bonte and Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III, with additional co-writing help from Jayne Louise Cramforde. All five volumes are available separately, but this book combines all five volumes in one.

Part I, The New Yorkers, (written by Cramforde and Bonte), the year is 1917. It is the end of the Gilded Era in New York, and the drums of war are sounding in Europe. 

Part II, Hollywood, (written by Fleming III and Bonte), the year is now 1919, and young people have come from all parts of the world to the new Mecca.

Part III, Prohibition, (written by Bonte and Fleming III), the 1920s is a time of incredible wealth and gang wars. In this third volume of the James Masters series set in 1923 New York, Masters is a bootlegger supplying illegal alcohol to tremendous demand.

Part IV, Hamptons Hot (written by Bonte),the year is 1924. The Great War has come and gone, having given way to the Roaring Twenties.

Part V, No Taboo (written by Bonte)—the final book in The James Masters Series—we are on an ocean steamer in 1925. James Masters is no more, and now it is Celia’s time.