prohibition

Fifteen-year-old Muncie Bolt thinks he's lost Hem Lion's friendship forever when his father prosecutes Hem's father for operating a still in Liberty, Vermont during the days of prohibition.

In 1925, fourteen-year-old amateur detective G. Codd Fitzmorgan finds himself at a lavish party in a storm-battered island mansion, embroiled in a mystery involving a seance, a missing aviator, and the sale of liquor banned under Prohibition.

Discusses alcohol consumption in colonial America, the temperance movements of the nineteenth century, and the impact that the prohibition of alcohol had on the nation.

Discusses the events leading to the enactment of the prohibition amendment, the problems caused by that amendment, and its continuing effects on society.