1950s Montreal

  • Who would kill someone as sweet as Sammy Adler?

    Jonah Geller knew Sammy at summer camp when they were twelve. He was an awkward kid Jonah tried to help on the softball field. He gave him the nickname Slammin' Sammy, which he went on to use as a feisty city columnist in Montreal. When Sammy is brutally murdered years later in what looks like a hate crime, and the investigation stalls, his dying grandfather begs Jonah to set things right. Montreal is only five hours away in Dante Ryan's new hemi-powered Charger, but Jonah and Ryan soon find it's a different world, with its own language and culture, tensions and conflicts, belligerent cops -- and a new set of rules waiting to be broken.

  • Meet Max Handler

    On a hot summer day in 1951, Montreal homicide sergeant Max Handler gets the call he's been dreading. After four days of searching, the body of young Irene Czerniak has been found. Max's search for her killer takes him from the grim east-end streets to the glittering Sainte-Catherine strip where Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra and Oscar Peterson played. Commissioned by editors John McFetridge and Jacques Filippi for Akashic Books' acclaimed new anthology Montreal Noir, Milk Teeth shows why Howard Shrier consistently earns rave reviews and national awards for his work.

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