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This short short was written for the Left Coast Crime 2001 program guide. The publications committee, Kimberley Gray, Elisa Hitchcock and Kathy Hughes, came up with the idea. Each attending author would be given a copy of the newspaper clipping describing the true life murder of Anchorage Police Chief John J. Sturgus in 1921, which remains unsolved to this day. Each writer was challenged to come up with their own solution to the crime, which would serve as their “bio” in the program guide. Of necessity, each story had to be very short, so I helped myself out by setting mine in the Kate Shugak universe, where the backstory was going to be familiar to most convention attendees.