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The clock is ticking on a legal drink. Hamilton, Ohio, 1919. Saloon owner Lyman Williams is set to pour the last legal beer in Butler County, a final, grand hurrah born from a loophole in the new statewide Prohibition law. But as the honest men prepare their dignified farewell, a dangerous new world is already taking shape. War-scarred veteran Joe Jacobs returns from France with lungs damaged by mustard gas and hands that won't stop shaking. Desperate for a way to provide for his family, he's quickly recruited into a burgeoning bootlegging operation by the shrewd Roy Addison and railroad man Fat Wrassman. Little Chicago Chronicles I: One More Last Call immerses you in the raw, untold history of Prohibition's turbulent dawn. As speakeasies replace saloons and crime turns professional, two men-one fighting to preserve peace, the other embracing the coming chaos-will define the bloody, lawless future of ""Little Chicago.""

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About Richard O Jones After 25 years writing the first draft of history as a writer and editor for his hometown newspaper, the Hamilton Journal-News, Richard O Jones left the grind of daily journalism in the fall of 2013 for a life of true crime. He is the author of two books on the History Press imprint, Cincinnati's Savage Seamstress: The Shocking Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal (October, 2014) and The First Celebrity Serial Killer: Confessions of the Strangler Alfred Knapp (May, 2015). In 2016, he began a twice-weekly podcast ""True Crime Historian"" (www.truecrimehistorian.com) where he tells stories of the scoundrels, scandals and scourges of the past through newspaper accounts in the golden age of yellow journalism. He created the Two-Dollar Terror series of novella-length ebooks. Mr. Jones, a creative writing graduate of Miami University, Ohio, spent most of his career as an arts journalist and has won numerous awards for his reviews and profiles. In 2004, he was named a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts Theatre and Musical Theatre program at the Annenberg School of Journalism. The Ohio Associated Press named him Feature Writer of the Year in 2011. Since leaving the newspaper world, Mr. Jones has become an active member of his local history community as a board member of the Butler County Historical Society, a member of the History Speakers Bureau and a regular presenter at Miami University in a program titled ""Yesterday's News."" The Michael J. Colligan History Project of Miami University presented Mr. Jones with a Special Recognition for Contributions to Public History for his coverage of the Centennial Commemoration of the Great Flood of 1913. Photo by Sandra M. Orlett

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