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The Carpenter From Montreal by George Fetherling

October 5, 2018

The story behind The Carpenter From Montreal centres around Jim (in New York) and a large Montreal man known to all as The Carpenter. It is the Prohibition Era, and gangsters control the flow of liquor out of Canada over the border.

Gambling with Fire by David Montrose

September 10, 2016September 6, 2016

Ricochet Books is a series of vintage noir mysteries from Véhicule Press of Montreal, QC. Gambling with Fire is their latest release and the fourth novel written by New Brunswick-born David Montrose,the pen name of Charles Ross Graham (1920-1968). Originally released in 1968, Graham had passed away only a few months previously.

Montreal, Post-WWII

The setting is Montreal just after the end of the second world war.… Continue reading