Sleuthing the Klondike
In the summer
of 1898 Helen Castrel arrives in Victoria, British Columbia, from England and
she hires Baxter Davenport of the Davenport & Son Detective Agency to go
with her to Dawson City to find her second oldest brother, David, whom she
hasn’t seen since she was eleven years old.
David had been
trouble to the family since he was young and was sent to Canada as a remittance
man ten years ago. The last communication her father, Charles Castrel, received
from David was late the summer before when he sent a telegram from Victoria saying
he was on his way to the Klondike gold rush at Dawson City. Since then Charles
Gastrel has heard nothing from his son, not even a letter stating where his
remittance money was to be sent. Helen needs to find David to make sure he’s
alive and to deliver a message from their father.
Mattie Lewis,
Helen Castrel’s lady’s maid, insisted on accompanying Helen, not only to look
after her but because she has worked for the family for years and remembers
David better than Helen does. She also has her own motive for wanting to find
David.
Baxter
Davenport isn’t sure about travelling north with two women. He will have a job
to do and doesn’t need to be looking after them. Plus, he doesn’t like the idea
that Helen Castrel is excited about being a sleuth along with him. He soon
finds out that both women can look after themselves.
The three head
north armed with an old photograph and a recent description they obtained from
David’s former landlady. They arrive in Dawson City where the gold rush is in
full swing. There they are challenged by deceit, fraud, and danger in their
quest to find David.
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Rushing the Klondike
In
this sequel to Romancing the Klondike, it is 1898 and
Pearl Owens has been in Dawson City for two years. She’d originally come north
with her cousin Emma to write about the people and places
along the Yukon River for her hometown newspaper and had stayed to
write about the Klondike Gold Rush and Dawson City.
Pearl
has been unlucky in love. She fell in love with a man named Joseph
Ladue, the founder of Dawson City, but he loved another woman and
returned to his fiancée in New York in 1897. Another man, Paul Gamon, has
expressed his desire to court Pearl, but Pearl wishes only to be friends with
him.
Pearl’s
best friend, Florence, and her older brother, Andrew,
cross the Chilkoot Trail and arrive in Dawson in search of gold.
Pearl remembers Andrew as the scrawny boy who threw snakes and
spiders at her and Florence when they were children. She is taken
by the handsome man he has become.
Andrew’s
first desire is to stake a gold claim after such a long, hard trip. He feels a
growing attraction for Pearl but must decide whether he wants to win her hand
or follow his dream.
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A Killer Match
Jenna Hamilton is a dating coach and the
co-owner, with Adam Owens, of a bookstore in the Net Loft on Granville Island in Vancouver. Hillary Greenwood is her
best friend and owns a hair salon in the Net Loft. Hillary’s car is being repaired and one of
her hairdressers, Bruno King, offers her a ride home after work. It is dark and
raining heavily as they leave Granville Island in Bruno’s 1965 Mustang. A truck comes up
behind and rams them three times—the third time sends them
crashing into a streetlight pole. Bruno is killed.
This looks like a case of road rage until Bruno’s condo, and Hillary’s house and
her salon are trashed. Jenna had set up one of her
part time employees, Michele, and Bruno through her dating coach business and
she helps Michele adjust as the life Bruno had presented to everyone begins to unravel.
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