Bøker av Jim Warren

A crow is an old term referring to a security guard. In the 1930s there were a lot of incidents involving citizens acting as security guards, and many were passing themselves off as policemen. To clear up the confusion, the city fathers in Capitol City enacted a city wide uniform dress code. So that security guards would not be mistaken for the real police dressed in blue, they were mandated to wear all black uniforms. Because they dressed in black, the security guards became known as crows, and are still known as crows even though the dress code was rescinded long ago. Now an evil entity is targeting the security guards. The shorthanded homicide squad has enlisted the help of veteran street cops Griffith (Zoo) Park and Kevin (Jinx) Jenks. Together they work to solve The Murder of Crows

The beginnings of a wine industry in Eastern Canada are rooted in mystery. Why did imported European vinifera grapes, not indigenous here, prove impossible to grow for more than 300 years? What were our original winemaking grapes and where and when did they originate? Who were our first winemakers and what kinds of wines did they produce? What inspired them to start their wineries just when the Temperance movement was gaining strength and threatening the prohibition of all alcohol sales in Ontario? When Prohibition finally arrived how did our wineries manage to carry on and how did the industry continue to survive the challenges of government control, the Depression, and World War II?After researching the early history of our native wine industry I have written this book to answer such questions and set the record straight about an industry that had shrunk from over 50 wineries in the 1920's to just 7 in the early 1970's producing much-maligned wine essentially from one grape, the infamous Concord. At this time the successful planting of 'new' grapes, numerous French Hybrid and Vinifera varieties, would see our native grapes begin to vanish and soon, along with them, the historical wines that could no longer be produced.