The ghosts of Eden Park : the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked Jazz-Age America
By: Abbott, Karen
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BookPublisher: New York : Crown, 2019Edition: First edition.Description: xviii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780451498625.Subject(s): Remus, George, 1878-1952 -- Trials, litigation, etc | Trials (Murder) -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- History -- 20th century | Uxoricide -- Law and legislation -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- History -- 20th century | Alcohol trafficking -- United States -- Biography | United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932Genre/Form: Biographies. | True crime stories.DDC classification: 345.771/02523 Summary: During Prohibition George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey; eventual owning 35 percent of all the liquor in the U. S. Prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down and sends Franklin Dodge to investigate. When Remus lands in jail it is Dodge and Remus’s wife who plot to ruin him, sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government--and that can only end in murder.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
During Prohibition George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey; eventual owning 35 percent of all the liquor in the U. S. Prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down and sends Franklin Dodge to investigate. When Remus lands in jail it is Dodge and Remus’s wife who plot to ruin him, sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government--and that can only end in murder.
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