Sensational Vancouver

by Eve Lazarus

History books typically show Vancouver as a pioneer city built on forestry, fisheries, and tourism, but behind the snow-capped mountains and rain forests, the Vancouver of the first half of the 20th century was a seething mass of corruption. The top job at the Vancouver Police Department was a revolving door with the average tenure for a police chief of just four years.In those early years, Detective Joe Ricci's beat was the opium dens and gambling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927380987
• ISBN13: 9781927380987
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Anvil Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.4"