Prospect Avenue

Border City Blues

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Pub Date 20 Nov 2018 | Archive Date 30 Sep 2018
Dundurn | Dundurn Press

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Description

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.
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...

A Note From the Publisher

- Third book in the Border City Blues series, which is often compared to the HBO series Boardwalk Empire
- Meticulously researched, with strict attention to historical detail
- Media-friendly author with experience in television, radio, and print interviews, as well as bookselling experience
- The series has been praised for its strong female characters who reach beyond formula-driven, male-dominated crime novels

- Third book in the Border City Blues series, which is often compared to the HBO series Boardwalk Empire
- Meticulously researched, with strict attention to historical detail
- Media-friendly...


Advance Praise

“This is a writer to watch”

                 —Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

“This is a writer to watch”

                 —Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail


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Launch...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781459735941
PRICE $17.99 (USD)
PAGES 328

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