Hot Freeze

A noir period piece and a colorful representation of Montreal in the 1950s

A raw novel of sex and drugs in the years just before rock n roll, "Hot Freeze" was first published in 1954. It takes readers from the highest Westmount mansion to the lowest Montreal gambling joint and nightclub. Its hero is Mike Garfin, a man who got kicked out of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for sleeping with the wife of a suspect. Recreating himself as an inquiry agent, Mike takes on what looks to be an easy job: shadowing a bisexual teenager of privilege who is throwing around more money than his allowance allows. But the boy disappears and soon other disappearances follow, and Garfin s world becomes a lonelier place."