The masquerades of spring

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - disgraced fop, flaneur extraordinaire, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. 'Gussie' is not one to shun shut-eye himself, however, ably waited on by his mysterious and magnificent butler Beauregard. But his peaceful luxuriaton is about to be rudely awakened by the arrival of an unexpected guest. Enter his old friend Thomas Nightingale, who has left Blighty and braved the Atlantic passage pursuing a rather intriguing old saxophone said to posses a strange power over those who play it. This deeply inconvenient affair will take Gussie from his warm bed to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows.