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Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby by Frank Prem

Who is Ida Pender? Is she the elderly woman - Ida-Spider - rumoured to be resident in a 1970's Mental Asylum? 

Is she Squizzy Taylor's teenaged gangster moll of the roaring 1920's in Melbourne? The woman the police declared had shapely legs? She is Ida. The Jazz Baby.

Release date: 13th January 2023 Publisher: Wild Arancini Press