Book description
Who committed Toronto's Silk Stocking Murder? Why did a quiet
accountant in Guelph, Ontario, murder his wife and two daughters? When
did police in Alberta hire a self-styled mind reader to solve a mass
murder? How did an American confidence man from Arizona find himself
facing a murder charge in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia? These questions
and more are answered in Murder: Twelve True Stories of Homicide
in Canada, the latest collection of thrilling true Canadian
crime stories by Edward Butts.
The keenly researched chapters tell the stories behind some of
Canada's most fascinating murder cases, from colonial times to the
20th century, and from the Atlantic provinces, to the West Coast, and
up to the Arctic. You'll meet John Paul Radelmuller, the Gibraltar
Point lighthouse keeper whose murder remains an unsolved mystery;
wife-killer Dr. William Henry King; and Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, Inuit
hunters whose trial for the murder of two priests became a national
sensation. Butts also profiles the investigators who tracked the
killers down, and in some cases sent them to the gallows in this
collection of true tales that range from shocking and macabre to
downright weird.
"This is a good anthology for crime history buffs and one thats
likely to inspire further reading."
Edward Butts is the author
of several true crime books, including Line of Fire, Running
with Dillinger, True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries, and
The Desperate Ones, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis
Award. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
