Sweethearts by Wismer, Catherine

Toronto: James Lorimer & Company [0-88862-384-4] 1980. (Hardcover) 222pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs, appendices, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom and the dust jacket is lightly rubbed and edgewowrn. "Mobsters, union organizers, extortionists, hit men, builders, subcontractors - they were the men who controlled Toronto's highrise apartment business during the building boom of the Sixties. Sweethearts tells the fascinating inside story of a thriving, profitable new industry and how organized crime moved in on it". Book about Apartment Buildings & True Crime. Time Period 1960's. Locale: Toronto--Ontario. (Canada, Building, History--Canada, Mob, Organized Crime).