Other reading:
Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men and Community in the Klondike, Charlene Porsild
Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, Charlotte Gray
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, Lael Morgan
The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896–1899, Graham Wilson
The Klondike Stampede, Tappan Adney.
The Last Great Gold Rush: A Klondike Reader, edited by Graham Wilson
The Real Klondike Kate, T. Ann Brennan
Women of the Klondike, Francis Backhouse
For information about the NWMP:
The NWMP and Law Enforcement 1873–1905, R.C. Macleod
Sam Steele: Lion of the Frontier, R. Stewart
Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894–1925, W.R. Morrison
They Got Their Man: On Patrol with the North West Mounted, P.H. Godsell
About the Author
Vicki Delany is a prolific and varied crime writer whose work includes standalone novels of gothic suspense, the Smith & Winters series, and the light-hearted Klondike Mysteries: Gold Mountain, Gold Digger, and Gold Fever. She lives in Picton, Ontario, and can be found online at www.vickidelany.com.
From the Same Series
A Klondike Mystery
Vicki Delany
978-1-459701892
$17.99
In the summer of 1897, Fiona MacGillivray and her eleven-year-old son, Angus, arrive in Vancouver in time to hear the news of gold discovered in the Klondike! Fiona immediately sets off for Skagway, Alaska, intent on opening a theatre. After one encounter with infamous gangster Soapy Smith and his henchman Paul Sheridan, she decides to pursue her ambitions on the other side of the border, in Dawson City. As a dying man breathes his last, he passes on to Sheridan a map pointing due north to the fabled Gold Mountain, where hills of gold keep the heat from hot springs contained in a valley as warm as California.
Sheridan is determined to become the king of Gold Mountain and to marry Fiona and make her his queen. Fiona, of course, wants no part of these mad plans. When Sheridan refuses to take no for an answer, Fiona must rely on Corporal Sterling of the North-West Mounted Police, young Angus, and a headstrong assortment of townsfolk to help thwart his scheme.
Gold Digger
A Klondike Mystery
Vicki Delany
978-1-894917803
$18.95
It’s the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, that her twelve-year-old son, growing up much too fast for her liking; the former Glasgow street fighter who’s now her business partner; a stern, handsome NWMP constable; an aging, love-struck ex-boxing champion; a wild assortment of headstrong dancers, croupiers, gamblers, madams without hearts of gold, bar hangers-on, cheechakos, and sourdoughs; and Fiona’s own nimble-fingered past don’t get to her first. And then there’s the dead body on centre stage.
More Great Dundurn Mysteries
On the Head of a Pin
A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery
Janet Kellough
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Thaddeus Lewis, an itinerant “saddlebag” preacher still mourns the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah as he rides to his new posting in Prince Edward County. When a girl in Demorestville dies in a similar way, he realizes that the circumstances point to murder. But in the turmoil following the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion he can get no one to listen. Convinced there is a serial killer loose in Upper Canada, Lewis alone must track the culprit across a colony convulsed by dissension, invasion, and fear. His only clues are a Book of Proverbs and a small painted pin left with the victims. And the list of suspects is growing …
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Delany, Vicki, 1951-, author
Gold web : a Klondike mystery / by Vicki Delany.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
1. Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Fiction.
I. Title.
PS8557.E4239G66 2013 C813’.6 C2013-902955-9
C2013-902956-7
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