MURDER AT 40 BELOW True Crime Stories From Alaska

Softcover. Foreword by Sheila Toomey. Featuring a collection of stories about 10 of Alaska's most notorious murder cases drawn from interviews with investigators, police files, eyewitness reports, and newspaper archives. They are grisly, fact-filled accounts of failed dreams, violent schemes, greed, madness, and treachery. Read about : Trusting Manley Hot Springs residents who began disappearing when a demented drifter arrives in town. The sexually obsessed big game hunter who lures topless dancers to a remote hideaway to rape, torture and kill them. The Juneau labourer who murders the man who beat his mistress and later gains a national following as the "Birdman of Alcatraz." The disturbing shooting deaths of 3 Eskimo hunters from Kiana in northwest Alaska that ends in an icy wilderness manhunt. The police appeal for help finding a serial killer that generates 7,000 calls from informants in the Fairbanks area. Also includes the Newman Family Massacre. Illus. by Brian Sostrom + Index. 191pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.