Summary of Karen Abbott's The Ghosts of Eden Park

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#1 Remus sold himself to Imogene Holmes. He would handle her divorce, and she didn’t have to worry about his fee; in fact, he would pay the rent on her apartment and spend more time with her than he did with his wife.

#2 Remus had always enjoyed confrontation, and he fought with the plumber who had disturbed his wife. He was eventually acquitted. His wife, Lillian, filed for divorce a second and final time, accusing him of cruelty. He agreed to a settlement reflective of his success: a lump sum of $50,000, $25 per week in alimony, and $30,000 in a trust for their daughter.

#3 Remus’s plan was to start a large-scale operation to sell liquor on the medicinal market. He would obtain wholesale drug companies, then obtain withdrawal permits that would allow him to remove whiskey from his warehouses and sell it on the medicinal market.

#4 Imogene had sold herself to Remus, too. She was malleable and receptive to his schemes. She would not tell anyone that Remus had always been terrified of ghosts. She would not divulge that his brother, Herman, had died in an insane asylum.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822551206

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Remus sold himself to Imogene Holmes. He would handle her divorce, and she didn’t have to worry about his fee; in fact, he would pay the rent on her apartment and spend more time with her than he did with his wife.

#2

Remus had always enjoyed confrontation, and he fought with the plumber who had disturbed his wife. He was eventually acquitted. His wife, Lillian, filed for divorce a second and final time, accusing him of cruelty. He agreed to a settlement reflective of his success: a lump sum of $50,000, $25 per week in alimony, and $30,000 in a trust for their daughter.

#3

Remus’s plan was to start a large-scale operation to sell liquor on the medicinal market. He would obtain wholesale drug companies, then obtain withdrawal permits that would allow him to remove whiskey from his warehouses and sell it on the medicinal market.

#4

Imogene had sold herself to Remus, too. She was malleable and receptive to his schemes. She would not tell anyone that Remus had always been terrified of ghosts. She would not divulge that his brother, Herman, had died in an insane asylum.

#5

Remus began to establish himself as a bootlegger. He bought a drugstore and converted it into a wholesale drug company, and he purchased several existing wholesale drug companies in different cities. He also purchased his own distillery, H. E. Pogue, in Maysville, Kentucky.

#6

Remus knew that he would be a target once word of the Circle spread. He was armed only with his wits and a truckload of whiskey, but he still managed to escape unharmed. He tracked down the pirates’ leader and gave him a compliment, then hired some of his men to drive his trucks.

#7

Conners was Remus’s physical and psychological opposite. He had a wiry, compact build, with bullet eyes and a reserved nature. He was a devoted husband and the father of a baby girl. The son of poor Irish immigrants, Conners had worked for the Democratic State Committee before becoming a real estate agent.

#8

Remus’s company, the Circle, was blacking the roads with whiskey trucks. He was the biggest man in the business, and Cincinnati was the American mecca for good liquor.

#9

Mellin was a federal official in Cincinnati.