A Murder for Christmas, (Paperback)

<p>In December of 1907, on the Manitoba border, a boy killed his friend with a hatchet for a hundred dollars.</p><p></p><p>Arthur LeClair, an eighteen-year-old fireman on the Great Northern, came home to Neche, North Dakota, with fourteen months of hard-earned wages in his pocket-one hundred dollars for his parents on Christmas Day. By morning, he was under the ice of the Pembina River.</p><p></p><p>When the town threatens to lynch two innocent suspects, the state's attorney calls in a Pinkerton detective to uncover the truth.</p><p></p><p>Drawing on contemporary newspapers and case files, A Murder for Christmas tells the story of a brutal Pembina County winter in plain American prose: of the Métis families along the river, a boy under the ice, the friend who killed him, and the witness in the willows who saw it all.</p>

• A Murder for Christmas, (Paperback)
• Author: Bill Throndset
• ISBN: 9798996371747
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-25
• Page Count: 266