| Management number | 239855779 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | $6.80 | Model Number | 239855779 | ||
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<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>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | June, 2026 |
| Pages | 266 |
| Subgenre | Historical |
| Series title | No Series |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | B/Throndset |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 6.00 x 0.60 x 9.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 0.79 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Fiction |
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