Del Norte Public Library

"The River Rat Murders presents the first part of the diary of Caroline Case, a Wabash Valley Madame, during Prohibition. After the murder of her friend Alec in 1921, Caroline becomes an amateur but extremely resourceful detective. She and her mysterious new friend, Hannibal Jones, her "girls" and an odd assortment of local characters solve five murders. They get no help from the authorities, who are on the take from gangsters who control the booze...

"The Roaring 20s and Prohibition was a defining era that shaped America--and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history's turning points during that era and will take a closer look at the major challenges and hurdles the United States faced. Readers will review how this period influenced the American culture from the fashion to the policies to the entertainment. The series includes educational sidebars and backmatter that align with the...

Chronicle of the thirteen years of Prohibition in the United States, the period from 1920 to 1933 when citizens were denied the right to buy or sell alcoholic drink, tracing the rise of the Temperance movement, and providing a complete account of George Remus, a lawyer who became a leading and very influential bootlegger.

"Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, this book tells the story of the untamed Wild West of the Prohibition era (1920s-1930s) and introduces a gallery of Western gunfighters and lawmen"--Provided by publisher.

It brings together twenty-five true stories about the wild outlaws and wild towns of the West from the late 1800s to the 1940s, stories about bank and stagecoach robbers, cattle rustlers, smugglers, counterfeiters, gamblers, racketeers, bootleggers, and crooked politicians.

"New York, 1931. The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law, but behind this prohibition, organized crime flourishes -- so, too, do bank robbers, bootleggers, assassins, and homunculi"--

In 1925, fourteen-year-old amateur detective G. Codd Fitzmorgan finds himself at a lavish party in a storm-battered island mansion, embroiled in a mystery involving a seance, a missing aviator, and the sale of liquor banned under Prohibition.

Examines the life of Carry Nation, whose destruction of saloons and other businesses that sold liquor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century won her both praise and criticism from fellow prohibitionists and temperance workers.

Working as the emcee at an LGBTQ-friendly speakeasy in the French Quarter of 1929 New Orleans, Millie is approached by a young socialite whose scandalous murder places Millie's best friend, the show's drag star, under suspicion.