Blistatelnye rasskazy o "veke dzhaza" - ironichnye, romanticheskie, grotesknye, tragicheskie, napisannye Fischsheraldom dlja populjarnykh zhurnalov ("The Saturday Evening Post", "Esquire" i dr.) i stavshie shedevrami amerikanskoj literatury, - sobrany v knige.
"Vse istorii, kotorye prikhodili mne v golovu, soderzhali v sebe nekie priznaki katastrofy - prelestnye sozdanija v moikh romanakh terpeli krushenie, almaznye gory moikh rasskazov vzryvalis, moi millionery byli prekrasny i prokljaty, ne menshe, chem krestjane Tomasa Gardi. V zhizni vse eto esche ne proizoshlo, no ja byl gluboko ubezhden, chto zhizn ne est nechto bezzabotnoe i bespechnoe, kak polagali vse eti ljudi".