Whisky and Ice: The Saga of Ben Kerr, Canada's Most Daring Rumrunner

Toronto: Dundurn, 1995. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 9" by 6" (inches), tight clean & square, flat uncreased spine, 193 pages, Near Fine condition. "Men like Rocco Perri & Ben Kerr were the point men who connected the titans of the distilling industry with the bootleggers to the south. Unlike Perri & most of these point men, Ben Kerr came from a solid middle class family. Some branches of his family were more than just middle class. His brother, George, rose to the vice-presidency of Canadian Westinghouse. George's sons have been equally successful. James Kerr became president of Trans Canada Pipe Lines, & Robert Kerr was a prominent physician in Vancouver. One of Ben Kerr's great nephews is a practising lawyer in Hamilton, another is Bob Morrow, the long time mayor of that city." Contents include: Prologue / Double Death / The Strike and the Piano Player / The Riot Act / Power Boats & Politics / Prohibition Comes to Ontario / Piano Player to Rumrunner / "In the Event of My Death--" / The Crime Boss & the Independent / Turning the Tide against the Law Breakers / John Brown Goes to Jail / Five Thousand Dollars for Charity / Hockey and Homicide / Cross-Border Crime / Bootleggers, Politicians, and Clergymen / Courts and Commssioners / The Quebec Connection / Whisky (Whiskey) and Ice / Murder or Misadventure? / Epilogue / notes / Bibliography.Check out the scans. . 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Ben Kerr, in the stern of his rumrunner, the Voyageur, circa 1923;. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.