{"product_id":"what-happened-to-mickey-the-life-and-death-of-donald-mickey-mcdonald-public-enemy-no-1-paperback","title":"What Happened to Mickey?: The Life and Death of Donald Mickey McDonald, Public Enemy No. 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter McSherry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mean streets of 1930s Depression-era Toronto comes the gripping tale of a man who became one of the nation's most notorious criminals. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the age of 31, Donald McDonald was only \"dirty little Mickey from The Corner,\" the notorious intersection of Toronto's Jarvis and Dundas Streets in a neighbourhood known in the 1930s as \"Gangland.\" After Mickey was charged with the January 1939 murder of bookmaker Jimmy Windsor, he became a national crime figure. What followed were two murder trials, a liquor-truck hijacking, a sensational three-man escape in 1947 from Kingston Penitentiary, and a $50,000 bank robbery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to police, as gleaned from underworld informants, Mickey was killed in the 1950s in the United States \"by his own criminal associates.\" Author Peter McSherry presents several versions of McDonald's demise, one of which he endorses, and tells why it happened, delivering a compelling denouement to the chronicle of a criminal readers will never forget.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter McSherry\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cem\u003eThe Big Red Fox\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMean Streets: Confessions of a Nighttime Taxi Driver \u003c\/em\u003ewere nominated for the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence and the Edna Staebler Award, respectively. He lived and worked in Toronto, where he drove a taxi at night for nearly forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.64 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53551542665523,"sku":"9781459707382","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/what-happened-to-mickey-the-life-and-death-of-donald-mickey-mcdonald-public-enemy-no-1-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}