{"product_id":"the-story-of-whiskey-corners-paperback","title":"The Story of Whiskey Corners - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTony Dunbar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the third in the \u003cstrong\u003eFlorida Fables\u003c\/strong\u003e series, all of which are tales set in and around Sarasota, Florida, and based upon true events and crimes, as told by Gawain MacFarland. His career was spent taming a lawless frontier and trying to remain true to his badge in the face of boom times and raucous corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Story of the Sarasota Assassination Society\u003c\/em\u003e, Gawain is a young man tasked with a dangerous job in the 1890's. He must bring to justice a fugitive who has murdered the Sarasota postmaster and expose the secret \"society\" responsible for the crime. In the second, \u003cem\u003eThe Story of the Sarasota Celery Fields \u0026amp; Other Mysteries\u003c\/em\u003e, MacFarland, now calling himself Gabe, has risen to be City Marshal of a fast-growing town in the boom years of the 1920's - dealing with bootleggers, the changes brought by the incredibly wealthy Bertha Palmer, the treatment of convict labor in the turpentine camps, and the murder of three-time mayor Harry Higel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Whiskey Corners\u003c\/em\u003e, set in the beginning of the Great Depression, Gabe MacFarland, who has retired as a lawman only to become a detective for the Ringling Brothers Circus, solves the murder of the \"Coquettes on 24\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Street,\" grapples with the gambling and booze mobs that invaded Florida, the \"Red Scares\" in Tampa and the tentacles of the Ku Klux Klan. And he must reclaim Clarinda, his wife, who had found that Sarasota has become, quite frankly, \"too bourgeois.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344110117171,"sku":"9798218075651","price":26.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZLKJhHKq2p9798218075651.webp?v=1778718550","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-story-of-whiskey-corners-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}