Nineteenth-century Victoria, in Canada's western British Columbia, rarely figures in a novel, but this award-winning tale will keep you pinned to your seat. Young Chad Hobbes, newly-arrived in the struggling town from England and forced to become a policeman rather than the barrister he had envisioned, investigates the grisly murder of an American alienist. Dr. McCrory was flamboyant in the American style, and practiced a rather peculiar method of calming his patients. Accused of the murder is an indian, prince of a little tribe, and he is clapped in jail without much regard for truth.
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Hobbes, mesmerized by the prince's wife, sets himself to unravel the mystery, which threatens the peace between settlers and indians. Not only a taut mystery but a marvelous investigation of the mind-sets of both settlers and indians. It's a 5, dilled with beautifully-researched settings and people.
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