The Silk Train Murder
Carroll & Graf, December 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7867-1946-4
At the turn of the last century, sleek steamliners carried a fortune in silk from the Orient to Vancouver. The costly material, insured by the day, was rushed to New York in specially designed silk trains, and became the target of every crook across the continent.
In an era of silk trains and Klondike gold, a body found on the Vancouver waterfront sends John Lansdowne Granville racing to uncover a killer in a frontier town where he knows no one.
Failing to strike it rich in the Klondike, Granville has taken a job guarding the silk trains, along with his friend and fellow gold-hunter Sam Scott. When Granville and Scott find gangster Clive Jackson's body on the wharf one snowy morning, Scott is quickly arrested for murder. Granville must unravel a web of deceit and betrayal in a world of silk trains, fan dancers and Klondike gold, of smuggling rings and opium dens.
Even the Klondike Gold Rush wasn’t this thrilling!
