Montreal in the 30's! A teeming, glamorous, vicious city with its cafes and cabarets and tinselly night-life, but with its racketeers and its killings too. Against the world-famous city is set the story of a young advertising executive, who came up...
Running liquor between Montreal and Windsor was the accepted way of making a fast dollar a couple of decades ago. But when Dave Manley left his newspaper job in Winnipeg to write fiction in Montreal he would have disagreed violently with anyone who ...
Ronald J. Cooke’s second novel, The Mayor of Côte 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 atmosphere will inspire his fiction, but was met ...