Dead North: An Alaska Mystery

370 Pages·2002·1 MB·English

by  Sue Henry

S U E H E N R Y

DEAD

NORTH

A N A L A S K A M Y S T E R Y
This one’s for my friend
and sometime travel companion
Barbara Hedges
with love and thanks
for always being there
That black bear in the field of sunflowers
wouldn’t have been half so funny without you
It is also dedicated in
loving memory to my dear
friend Alice Abbott
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Contents
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1 THE OLD MAN WOKE STILL TIRED
FROM A RESTLESS sleep… 1
2 SOMETIME DURING A NIGHT IN EARLY
MAY, JESSIE Arnold was… 13
3 AT JUST AFTER EIGHT THE NEXT
MORNING, BREAKFAST over,
everything… 27
4 IT HAD TAKEN PATRICK CUTLER A
LONG TIME TO WALK… 41
5 AS JESSIE WAS EXPLORING THE
HISTORIC BUILDINGS and
attractions of… 53
6 THE SUN WAS MORE THAN HALFWAY
DOWN THE WESTERN sky… 63
7 THE UNEXPECTED FURY OF THE STORM
THAT SWEPT thunderously through… 75
8 THE DAMPNESS LEFT BY THE STORM
WAS RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING in… 87
9 WHISTLER’S CAMPGROUND IN JASPER
NATIONAL PARK was enormous,
with hundreds… 99
10 FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS OF THE
JOURNEY JESSIE’S wish… 111
11 CRAIG SEVERSON WAS SOAKED TO
THE SKIN, COLD, AND thoroughly… 125
12 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG
WHILE JESSIE BROKE… 143
13 AFTER FILLING THE WATER TANK
AND EMPTYING THE holding tanks… 157
14 THE RAIN HAD MOMENTARILY
STOPPED, THOUGH THE clouds
still hung… 169
15 ALL NIGHT LONG IT RAINED, AND
IT WAS STILL raining… 181
16 JESSIE LED THE WAY AS SHE AND
MAXIE TURNED ONTO… 195
17 MAXIE FINISHED MAKING A TUNA
SALAD AND PUT IT in… 209
18 MAXIE FOUND A PHONE OUTSIDE THE
PARK ENTRANCE by the… 221
19 MAXIE AND STRINGER HAD GONE
ONLY A FEW STEPS back… 231
20 ARRIVING IN WATSON LAKE, A
COMMUNITY OF ALMOST
1,800 people… 245
21 MAXIE MCNABB WAITED ANXIOUSLY
IN HER MOTOR home for Inspector… 263
22 IT WAS 163 MILES FROM WATSON
LAKE TO TESLIN, and… 275
23 IN THE LAST, DARKEST HOUR
BEFORE DAWN, JESSIE suddenly woke… 287
24 WHEN MAXIE WOKE EARLY THE
NEXT MORNING, IT was just… 297
25 WEBSTER ARRIVED FIRST AT THE
DRIVEWAY THAT LED down to… 309
26 JESSIE HELPED PATRICK SWING HIS
LEGS OUT OF THE water,… 319
27 IT WAS ANOTHER GLORIOUS DAY
WHEN JESSIE, MAXIE, and Patrick… 329
28 THE OLD MAN WOKE IN THE GRAY
EARLY MORNING light,… 341
Acknowledgments
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