“Alex MacIntosh had an eventful twenty-four hours. In the afternoon, he had been released from the Hazelton jail. In the evening, he worked on the pack train he was leaving with the following day. He had then gone to drink in the bar in the nearby hamlet of Two Mile. There he had become embroiled in a fight with a man named Simon. From four in the morning, he spent two hours rounding up a dozen horses that had strayed. Then, after having a cup of tea and some beans, he set out to the hospital to have the cut he had received during the brawl attended to. On the way, he was murdered. “
Why? And who had done it? It wasn’t long before the police suspicion fell on the well-respected Gitxsan merchant and trapper Simon Gunanoot? But was it really him?