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The Devil's Making

A Mystery

Author: Seán Haldane

The Devil's Making

The Devil's Making

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Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award) for Best Novel

In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a...

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368
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05/05/2015

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Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award) for Best Novel

In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coexisting beside a population of native Indians that vastly outnumbers them. Their cautious peace is challenged when a body is discovered: Dr. McCrory, an American alienist whose methods included phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical magnetation.

Chad Hobbes, recently arrived from England, is the policeman who must solve the crime. At first it seems the murderer was an Indian medicine man who has already been arrested. It would be easy for Hobbes to let him swing for the murder, but his own interest in an Indian woman from the same tribe causes him to look at the case in more detail. And once he does, he discovers that everyone who knew McCrory seems to have something to hide.

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, Sean Haldane's The Devil's Making portrays a frontier where cultures clashed on the eve of a new country's birth.

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Minotaur Books

ISBN

9781466878129

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“An absolutely worthy winner. … Haldane makes the reader feel as if they've been dropped into the daily lives of those living in 1869-era Victoria, and refuses to shy away from the truth in favor of a more politically correct approach to historical fiction.” —Sarah Weinman, National Post (Canada)

“Truly an extraordinary narrative of nineteenth-century detective work . . . Haldane's ability to bring to life nineteenth-century British Columbia and portray with such fine precision the attitudes, prejudices, and beliefs of the period is a remarkable achievement. The Devil's Making is a page-turner written in exceptional prose with elaborate and exciting descriptions of the inhabitants and locales of pre-confederation Vancouver Island.” —Ottawa Review of Books

“Haldane's first mystery, evocative and elegantly written, is a deeply philosophical look at a relatively unknown historical period.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

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The Devil's Making

The Devil's Making

$12.99

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