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Gold Digger (A Klondike Mystery #1)
by
Delany Vicki
It's the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, that her twelve-year-old son, growing up much too fast for her liking; the former Gla...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
April 15th 2009
by Napolean and Co
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Enjoy history? Like a mystery? Gold Digger is an absolutely delightful historical
mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed spending time back in 1898, the Yukon Territory, in the rip roaring mining town of Dawson. A native born Californian, I was raised on stories of the 1849 Gold Rush and the founding of San Francisco, so reading about the last great Gold Rush had a lot of familiarity but the great Canada wilderness was an unique setting. Vicki Delany has made the town of Dawson and its inhabitants come al...more
mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed spending time back in 1898, the Yukon Territory, in the rip roaring mining town of Dawson. A native born Californian, I was raised on stories of the 1849 Gold Rush and the founding of San Francisco, so reading about the last great Gold Rush had a lot of familiarity but the great Canada wilderness was an unique setting. Vicki Delany has made the town of Dawson and its inhabitants come al...more
The Yukon's past still provides good stories.
In Gold Digger, readers from Outside will find author Vicki Delany has recreated the Yukon mythos admirably, even dredging up details of little known habits of our working girls. Overall Gold Digger is an intriguing frolic through the romantic past of a remote land. With damsels in distress, rugged miners, ruthless killers and dauntless Mounties, Gold Digger has all the flavour and frivolity of a play the heroine, Fiona MacGillivray, would have produc...more
In Gold Digger, readers from Outside will find author Vicki Delany has recreated the Yukon mythos admirably, even dredging up details of little known habits of our working girls. Overall Gold Digger is an intriguing frolic through the romantic past of a remote land. With damsels in distress, rugged miners, ruthless killers and dauntless Mounties, Gold Digger has all the flavour and frivolity of a play the heroine, Fiona MacGillivray, would have produc...more
Enjoyable mystery, interesting history lesson and basically a fun read. Fiona is a single mother in the Yukon of 1898. A 12-year old boy, owning a saloon/dance hall, and trying to maintain a "proper" status in the rough and tumble world of the the Klondike gold rush is enough to keep her busy without a murdered man being found on her stage. The dead man has only been in town two/three days and already made a number of enemies and no one who met him seems to have liked him. Possible suspects are...more
A woman, a single mother, running a dance hall and casino during the gold rush in the Yukon. I get the feeling there were previous books about this woman who seems to have had an adventurous life living on the legal edge. A man is killed in her establishment. We backtrack a few days to the events leading up to it and then go forward as the Mounties investigate. She's the one that ultimately stumbles into the killer. Not a bad read.
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Very good! Especially if you like gold rush books
Aug 04, 2010
Lynn Stadel
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who loves a good murder mystery, and the klondike days.
Get taken back in time to the gold rush, to a simpler time before all modern invention. Here a man gets murder but by who? He wasn't exactly a very well liked man, since he was killed in Fiona's saloon I guess it will be up to her to find out who killed him.
Engaging read, good effort. I just wish we knew more about the characters involved and their stories.
A little cutesie, but set in an interesting period in an interesting place.
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