Great Lakes Crime: Murder, Mayhem, Booze and Broads

by Frederick Stonehouse

Great Lakes Murder, Mayhem, Booze and Broads by Frederick Stonehouse.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, True Crime

Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Frederick Stonehouse has authored over thirty books on maritime history, many of them focusing on the Great Lakes and contributed to several others. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales are regional best sellers. Wreck Ashore, the U.S. Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes, won a national publishing award and is the predominant work on the subject. Another book, Haunted Lakes, Great Lakes Maritime Ghost Stories, Superstitions and Sea Serpents, has opened an entirely new genre in Great Lakes study. His book, Final Voyage, is the first Great Lakes shipwreck book for children.

He has been a consultant for both the U.S. National Park Service and Parks Canada and has been an "on-air" expert for National Geographic, History Channel and Fox Family, as well as many regional media productions. Awards for contributions to Great Lakes maritime history have been received from Underwater Canada, Our World Underwater, Marquette Maritime Museum and Marquette County Historical Society. He is also the recipient of the 2006 Association For Great Lakes Maritime History Award for Historic Interpretation. The Award is presented annually in recognition of an individual making a major contribution over many years to the interpretation of Great Lakes maritime history in furtherance of the goals of the Association. In addition he was named the Marine Historical Society of Detroit’s “2007 Historian of the Year.” The award is the result of election by past MHSD Historians and recognizes persons who have actively contributed to the study of Great Lakes history. He holds a Master of Arts degree in History from Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan.

Reviews

[Lea Cavazos · Rating 5 out of 5]

History with a sense of humor

[Vangie Sternstein · Rating 3 out of 5]

This makes for a great coffee table book. It was interesting in parts but some appeared to be filler. It took a while to get through it.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great Lakes history is made up of many tales, some folklore, some truth and some in between. Author, Stonehouse, has a way of sifting through the fiction to locate the facts that bring these tales to life. Did you know that the Great Lakes had its own famous pirate? Or that one of the Coast Guard's duties was to watch out for rum runners? There are also tales of mutiny, murder and a stories of being 'shanghaied' to add to the drama. Like his other books, Stonehouse includes many interesting photographs and just enough info to pique one's interest for learning more about the roaring 20's and that invisible mark between the Canadian and the US border.

[Angela Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book, and the writing (as always) was superb, but I have to ask...did Frederick Stonehouse have a bug up his butt when he wrote it? I sensed a lot of hostility not so thickly veiled. Read between the lines? It isn't difficult. Lucky for us it makes for excellent entertainment. Nice job, Fred.

[Calvin]

While wonderfully researched and laid out, Stonehouse doesnt really have a flair for storytelling.