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A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada’s prison system. Born and raised in Toronto’s Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years. In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars....

Valentine For a Dead Lady, an introduction to Mel D. Ames's classic intrepid and daring Detective Cathy Carruthers. In the male dominated world of hard-boiled detectives, Ames's genre changing Lieutenant Carruthers pioneered a new exciting direction with these fast-paced tales of vice and villainy. Originally published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Ames’s stories evoke the golden era of short crime...

People rule here. They define the laws of life and death. They can kill animals to eat them. They can excoriate them, play with their suffering, modify their bodies—simultaneously claiming that they are intelligent and emphatic beings. The Animals Spoke Up consists of four stories with animals as the protagonists. The toro bravo bulls, since birth preparing to fight at the corrida de toros. Together...