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Snatched!

The Peculiar Kidnapping of Beer Tycoon John Labatt

by (author) Susan Goldenberg

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2004
Category
General, General, Law Enforcement
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459717718
    Publish Date
    Sep 2004
    List Price
    $8.99

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Description

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.

About the author

Susan Goldenberg is the author of nine books and has won both a Canadian Author’s Award and a Canadian Business Press Editors’ Award. She has written for the Sunday New York Times, the Financial Post, and the Financial Times of Canada, and currently pens articles for Canada’s History magazine. She also writes a heritage column on the district of Toronto where she lives.

 

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