A novel about Montreal during the not-s0-halcyon era of a couple of decades ago when gangs and girls made rum-running and slot machines big business.
-from the 1950 edition
Ronald J. Cooke's second novel, The Mayor of C te St. Paul is the tale of a struggling writer living in Depression-era Montreal. Winnipegger Dave Manley, arrived in the city thinking that its rich atmosphere will inspire his fiction, but was met...