Vile spirits
Gray, John, 1946-2022
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Alcohol is once again legal in Vancouver after the failed experiment of prohibition, but pro-temperance sentiments remain strong. Politicians like Attorney General Gordon Cunning attempt appeasement by establishing the Liquor Control Board, which oversees supply, from the lofty circles of power down to bleak public drinking factories called 'beer parlours'. But when Cunning is found deceased, an empty martini glass at his side, quickly followed by Mrs. Harlan Crombie, the wife of a prominent bureaucrat, who falls dead after an afternoon book club meeting, suspicions are raised. Is it pure coincidence that the deceased were both drinking the same brand of 'tonic'? Or is it a spillover from American prohibition, where deliberately tainted booze is killing thousands?
Main title:
Vile spirits / John MacLachlan Gray.
Author:
Gray, John, 1946-, author
Imprint:
Madeira Park : Douglas & McIntyre, 2022.
Collation:
320 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781771622776 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PR9199.3.G753
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3124302