In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of ex-rumrunners, desperate in the days following prohibition and the Great Depression, were hoping for a big payday. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction through to the trials of the abductors. From a heavily populated hideout to a case of mistaken identity, follow the story of Labatt, the first person in Canada to be kidnapped for high ransom.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd
ISBN-10
1550025392
ISBN-13
9781550025392
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103404942
Product Key Features
Author
Susan Goldenberg
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
True Crime
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Content Note
15 Illus
Author Biography
Susan Goldenberg is the author of eight non-fiction books and has won the Canadian Author's Award and Canadian Business Press Editors' Award. She was Canadian bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News and has written for the Sunday New York Times, the Financial Post, the Financial Times of Canada and The Beaver.