Thomas Alexander Turcotte came into the Vanderhoof, B.C., RCMP station on the morning of May 4, 2000, with an unshaven face and greasy hands. It was 9:30 a.m. when the skinny man told the clerk, "You'd better get a car out to Bob...

On June 4, 2002, Samuel Fellichle made a desperate and bizarre decision at about 10:30 pm. The churchgoing, highly regarded 27-year-old resident of Spallumcheen, B.C., spent 25 minutes preparing to take a life. He found his brother's hunting rifle, loaded the right ammunition,...

The Garden-of-Live-Flowers incident in the Alice-mythos anticipates the method of the modern detection-fan. To find the Red Queen he has learnt to go in the most unlikely direction. So now the hard-pressed writer is inclined to try a double bluff and make his criminal the obvious suspect throughout. It would give away her whole plot to tell which of these bluffs Mrs. Christie employs in [The A.B.C. Murders]: one can only chalk up yet another defeat at her hands and admit sadly that she has led one up the ga...