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The Blood Libel

Book 1 of the Sam Klein Mystery Series

by Allan Levine

Sam Klein is a bouncer and guardian of local brothel who investigates the murder of a young girl. The number one suspect, who is charged with the murder, is a rabbi. His search for the real killer is frustrated by battles with ethnic intolerance and with the local police who insist they've found their man.

The Blood Libel brings the vivid, turbulent times of turn-of-the-century Winnipeg to life, using the "wickedest city in the Dominion" as a setting for this complex and chilling mystery thriller. The novel captures the indomitable spirit of immigrant life in Winnipeg's fabled North End, and creates a detective hero for the ages in Sam Klein, whose pursuit of justice goes to the heart of the immigrant experience as "foreigners" in a strange, new land.

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Publisher: Friesens

Date: 2001

ISBN: 9780969780458

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Sub-genres: Suspense , Historical , Jewish

About The Author

Allan Levine is an award-winning internationally selling author and historian based in Winnipeg, Canada. He has written seventeen books including The Dollar A Year Men (2025), Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience (2018), Toronto: Biography of a City (2014) and King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny (2011), which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction

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