A disturbing tale of identity and deception set in 1950s Toronto. That Rafe Jonason’s life didn’t end when he smashed up his car was something of a miracle; on that everyone agreed. However, the d
Austrian aristocrat Franz Loebek lands in Canada penniless, having lost everything in the violent upheavals brought by the Second World War. In Montreal he finds the Old World sophistication of London
The third and final detective tale in this gritty series of vintage mysteriesoriginally published in 1953once again follows the hard-drinking yet hardworking private eye, Russell Teed, through the cro
In Four Days, an orphaned boy watches as his older brother and idol graduates from petty thievery into big-league crime. A bank heist goes awry, leaving loose threads and dangerous links back to the b
A noir period piece and a colorful representation of Montreal in the 1950sA raw novel of sex and drugs in the years just before rock’n’roll, Hot Freeze was first published in 1954. It takes readers fr
Ronald J. Cooke’s second novel, The Mayor of Cote St. Paul, is the tale of a struggling writer living in Depression-era Montreal. Winnipegger Dave Manley, arrived in the city thinking that its rich at
“It’s been a long time now, nearly two years since we met at that party.” “Yeah,” Tessie said bitterly, “and nearly five years since I was a clever little girl who thought she’d found a way to make a
First published in 1946, The Long November enjoyed six different editions in nine years, making it one of the bestselling Canadian novels of the postwar period. Its last appearance, as a pirated paper
When heroin-addicted call girl Elizabeth Lucy dies in a fall from a swanky penthouse terrace, homicide detective Henderson is assigned to the case. Was it murder? Suicide? Through his investigation, H
