Coming Out of the Water Dry

Coming Out of the Water Dry (The 1838 Missouri Extermination Order) “The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state.” So ordered Governor Lilburn […]

The Matter of Gift Mortgages

When Detective Heinz Noonan arrives in Spokane to investigate a simple case of double obituaries, he has no idea he’s about to uncover the largest legal theft in American history. […]

The Matter of the Hijacked Artifacts

Why would anyone steal something that has no value? And then stick the insurance company for a ten-million-dollar loss? That’s what insurance investigator Bernice Whitcomb is facing—she needs all the help she […]

The Matter of the Departed Diamonds

How can $2 million in diamonds vanish? First, the diamonds were assessed to make sure they were authentic. Then, in front of witnesses, they were placed in a locked cabinet. […]

Bonfire Saloon

The Alaska Gold Rush is the least studied era of United States history. If you pull up Alaska Gold Rush on Wikipedia, you will get the Klondike Gold Rush. The […]

The Matter of the Bandersnatch Burglar

How can a man drown in a hot air balloon? Can a boxcar disappear off a moving train, and is it possible for flying horses on a merry-go-round to fly […]

The Matter of the Runaway Bullion Flatcar

Impossible Crime Detective Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes,” is ordered to East St. Louis, where a criminal mastermind has made a train with 70 passengers and crew disappear. As the […]

The Matter of the Misdirecting Mastermind

Impossible Crime Detective Heinz Noonan, the \“Bearded Holmes,\” is ordered to East St. Louis, where a criminal mastermind has made a train with 70 passengers and crew disappear. As the […]

Archie Ferguson

Archie Ferguson is the last of the original fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Alaska bush pilots to be the subject of a biography. Dubbed “Alaska’s Clown Prince,” he added many hilarious chapters to Alaska’s […]

The Contract

The Contract is a narrative poem of exactly what our grandmothers did a century ago to make men’s and women’s rights equal. The poem is a conversation between a college-age […]

The Matter of the Duct Tape Tuxedo

Captain Heinz Noonan, “Master of the Impossible Crime,” is called upon to solve the most puzzling of riddles. If it’s odd, you call Noonan. Why, for instance, would someone steal […]

The Matter of the Phantom Purloiners

Captain Heinz Noonan, Master of the Impossible Crime, is in Wyoming to solve an odd murder. A transient is under arrest, accused of murdering himself with a weapon that cannot […]

Beating Banks At Their Own Game

As you are reading this, banks are giving away millions of your dollars in gift mortgages. The banks are borrowing money from the federal government for mortgages, claiming the loans […]

The Matter of the Deserted Airliner

Unicorn Airlines Flight 739 with no pilot, no crew, and no passengers lands at Anchorage International Airport. As the authorities are wondering what happened, a ransom demand is made for […]

The Matter of the Vanishing Greyhound

How can a Greyhound Bus with four bank robbers, $10 million in cash, the contents of all of the safety deposit boxes and 12 hostages being followed by the San […]

Walrus With A Gold Tooth

In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of 10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The […]

Cowboys of the Sky

For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska’s rugged terrain. They’ve flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses […]

A Rat’s Nest of Rails

That the Alaska Railroad was ever built is astonishing. It was constructed over the most treacherous terrain in the world during the most violent political era in US history. The […]