Italian Rocco Perri rose from the life of a petty criminal on the streets of Toronto to run the most prominent bootlegging operation of the Prohibition Era in central Canada, taking over Hamilton and leading one of the region?s most influential crime families. Perri was feared by his enemies and loved by the press, and following the murder of his first wife and business partner, Bessie Starkman, a crowd of 30,000 thronged the streets of Hamilton to watch her funeral. His businesses, which included alcohol, drugs, gambling and prostitution, kept Perri under constant police surveillance. Frank Zaneth, also Italian, joined the RCMP and became its first undercover operative. He was dogged in his pursuit of Rocco Perri and worked for his arrest until the day Perri was last seen, in 1944, when he disappeared without a trace. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2017.