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“All of the facts are not known and may never be, but enough became public to make the Alaska murder case a grim thriller that outdid anything invented by mystery writers like James Cain, Rex Stout, or Mickey Spillane” - Ebony magazine, October 1954
“This is a page-turner with all the complications and plot-twists that only true-crime can provide. Bartlett delivers it in abundance. This is the quintessential Alaska crime story” - Leland E. Hale, co-author of the best-selling Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
“It remains to this day the most notorious and baffling case in the history of Fairbanks” - Terrence Cole, Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star