DEAD MEN DO SPEAK IN CODE

by Steven Levi

It started with a murder. And an odd one. The victim was killed with a shotgun on a steamship and his body was dumped overboard. In a cork life vest. With a note in code to the United States Marshal in Juneau. It’s 1910 and Alaska’s wealth is threatened when President Taft takes back all coal lands. Without coal there will be no gold mining. What does the coded note say and what does it have to do with saving Alaska’s gold mines? Alaskan historian Steve Levi has mixed fact with fiction for a wild ride in the northland with anarchists, socialists, coal, gold, murder and the opportunity for United States Marshal Gordon Whitford to ‘turn the tables’ on a cabal of East Coast coal barons who think they have it ‘made in the shade.’

199 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 9, 2021