Whisky and Ice: The Saga of Ben Kerr, Canada's Most Daring RumrunnerDuring the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the "King of the Rumrunners." The U.S. Coast Guard put him at the top of the most-wanted list and offered a reward of $5,000. But ending up in Club Fed was not Kerr’s only worry - he had to contend with Hamilton crime lords Rocco and Bessie Perri. Whisky and Ice takes the reader back to the Prohibition era, when Canada and the United States were obsessed with "demon liquor" (not to mention the endless posturing by politicians). As Hunt aptly writes, the U.S. during Porhibition "was about as dry as the mud flats of the Mississippi at high tide." |
Contents
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The Riot Act | 25 |
Power Boats and Politics | 31 |
Prohibition Comes to Ontario | 38 |
Piano Player to Rumrunner | 45 |
Five Thousand Dollars for Charity | 93 |
Hockey and Homicide | 101 |
CrossBorder Crime | 130 |
Bootleggers Politicians and Clergymen | 142 |
Courts and Commissioners | 154 |
The Quebec Connection | 165 |
Whisky and Ice | 171 |
Murder or Misadventure? | 179 |
In the Event of My Death | 55 |
The Crime Boss and the Independent | 61 |
Turning the Tide against the Law Breakers | 74 |
John Brown Goes to Jail | 81 |
Epilogue | 183 |
Notes | 186 |
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Whisky and Ice: The Saga of Ben Kerr, Canada's Most Daring Rumrunner C. W. Hunt Limited preview - 1996 |
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