Christine Cowley

Collector of Stories, Explorer of Perspectives

Trevor Cole

Podcasts

Trevor Cole chased away the inclement weather of April 2017 when he joined us to talk about The Whisky King (Harper Perennial). Nothing like a great cops-and-robbers tale to chase the rainy day blues—especially when it’s all true.

The Whisky King is a page-turning, real-life story of Rocco Perri, Canada’s first celebrity gangster, who, with his glamourous and criminal genius wife, Bessie Starkman, heated up the headlines for over two decades, running one of Canada’s most successful bootlegging operations of the Prohibition Era. Less celebrated but no less intriguing is “Operative No. 1”, Canada’s first undercover RCMP officer, whom Cole reveals as the man who refused to abandon the chase to bring Perri to justice.

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