An Evening with Eliot Kleinberg

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In the South Florida of the 1920s, Prohibition is a joke. There’s an open coastline just a few hours’ boat ride from the British docks in the Bahamas, and wealthy society swells and tourists will pay handsomely for a drink. The suppliers become folk heroes and the lawman the villain. Miami police detective Nate Moran’s friend, a federal Prohibition agent, is murdered by a rumrunner who later walks on a technicality. Nate helps bring to justice a high-seas pirate and murderer in Fort Lauderdale and helps bust up a notorious gang of moonshiners, rumrunners, and robbers. He learns a close colleague has gone to the other side. He has a final showdown with that rumrunner who walked. And he must solve a M**der in a secret room of a Palm Beach hotel where the rich and entitled can drink: Hypocrite’s Row.

Florida native Eliot Kleinberg, creator of the Civil War historical novel "Peace River," the"Adventures of Nate Moran" novels, and the original "Weird Florida" books, spent nearly a half-century reporting on local news and writing about Florida and Florida history. He produced two history columns and wrote fourteen books -- and co-wrote or contributed to several more -- all of them about Florida. Son of longtime journalist Howard Kleinberg, he lectures regularly on Florida topics and runs a blog on better writing called "Something Went Horribly Wrong." http://www.ekfla.com

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