Posted on 06/06/2010 2:10:53 PM PDT by Fishtalk
Yes there really was a flood of molasses in Boston in the early 18th century, and as improbable as it seems, the reality is horrifying.
And yes, sometimes a woman is so dumb she's married to a killer and doesn't know it.
Reviews of "Dark Tide" and "Mafia Wife"…both older books but worth a new look.
(Excerpt) Read more at fishbookreviews.blogspot.com ...
as a topic for popular consumption, the mafia has been quite played out.
Wrong. The Molasses Flood was January 15, 1919.
I guess I should have typed “20th Century”?
Sorry.
Cool. Are you perchance the author of the book?
On a typically hot day you can still get a whiff of molasses in the air ....
No, but it looks like a good read.
I grew up in Boston. My Dad and Grandma said you could still smell the remnants of the molasses on hot, humid summer days well into the 1950s.
It was a good read.
My husband, hailing from Boston, knew the book’s author which is why I asked. You never know.
I’d passed by this book so many times when one day it stuck me...a molases flood?
It was horrific. One firefighter got stuck and died an agonizing death, struggling to keep his head above the muck.
I’m the first to complain about gubmint intervention into so much of our lives but this story is a complaint about greed run amuck and the innocents who died because of it.
I’ll be reading it for sure this summer. Thanks for the tip.
True!
This topic was posted . Thanks Fishtalk.
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