Prospect Avenue (eBook)

Border City Blues

Michael Januska (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
328 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3596-5 (ISBN)

Infos

For bootleggers like Jack McCloskey, Prospect Avenue is just another dead end, and not even one of the better ones, but at least it’s away from prying eyes. But Jack is about to learn that what goes on in the shadows isn’t at all as “nice” as what he does, as the trade in opium — and people — picks up in Windsor.

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West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare.Prospect Avenue is nothing more than a dirt road ending in bulrushes behind a roadhouse. It's a popular rendezvous point along the Detroit River for bootleggers like Jack McCloskey. But there's more than just rum-running going on these days; there's a growing trade in opium and people, as McCloskey finds out when he rescues the survivor of a bad smuggling deal.As if this wasn't enough, McCloskey is also trying to get his dinner club back on its feet, while his girlfriend, the indomitable Vera Maude, has a wedding to plan and it's not her own. He's trying to hold things together while police corruption and domestic strife threaten to pull it all apart. Then, a series of murders brings powerful groups into conflict and may drag McCloskey into the fray.

Autor

Michael Januska was born in Windsor and has worked with books his whole life, both as a bookseller and for several book publishers. Stories from the Border City Blues series have won two consecutive Scene of the Crime short story prizes. He lives in Toronto.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Border City Blues
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Schlagworte: 1920s • Chinese immigrants • detective • Detroit • Detroit River • Ford City • Human Trafficking • Maiden Lane • Opium • Police • Prohibition • Riverside Drive • Rum Running • Silent Film • Smuggling • Studebaker • Vaudeville • Walkerville • Whiskey • Windsor, ON
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3596-X / 145973596X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3596-5 / 9781459735965