Untertitel:: The Peculiar Kidnapping of Beer Tycoon John Labatt
Verlag:: DUNDURN
Erschienen:: 22.09.2004
Seitenanzahl:: 288
ISBN:: 1459717716
EAN:: 9781459717718
Sprache:: Englisch
Format:: EPUB
Schutz:: Adobe-DRM

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Snatched!

Susan Goldenberg

<p>In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of ex-rumrunners, desperate in the days following prohibition and the Great Depression, were hoping for a big payday. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction through to the trials of the abductors. From a heavily populated hideout to a case of mistaken identity, follow the story of Labatt, the first person in Canada to be kidnapped for high ransom.</p>