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Coppermine / Keith Ross Leckie.

by Leckie, Keith Ross, 1952-

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Viking Canada, c2010.

Royal North West Mounted Police (Canada) -- Fiction.

Inuit -- Fiction.

Priests -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.

Coppermine River Valley (N.W.T. and Nunavut) -- Fiction.

xviii, 446 p. : map ; 24 cm.

"In 1913 two Canadian priests disappear in the remote Arctic region known as the Coppermine. North West Mounted Police officer Jack Creed and Angituk McAndrew, a young Copper Inuit interpreter, are sent on a year-long odyssey to investigate the fate of the lost missionaries. On the banks of the Coppemine River, a few miles from the Arctic Ocean, they discover their mutilated remains. Two Inuit hunters are tracked and apprehended, and they confess to the murders. Together, the four make the dangerous, arduous journey to Edmonton for the trial. The crowded, energetic city is a strange new world for the Inuit, and through their impressions as told to the press, they become celebrities, while inside the courtroom the bizarre story of the killings of the priests unfolds."--Inside front cover.

Historical mystery fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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