In the Land of Little Sticks — Les Savage Jr.

This collection brings together all the short fiction that Les Savage, Jr. set in Canada, Alaska or the Arctic. Among these tales is "Mush Fast Or Die": Arliss Burdette journeys into the Arctic Circle searching for her father, a geologist thought to be dead but who wrote her a recent letter. Her guide ? the only man who knows the Barrens, was, in fact, her father's guide and has been accused of her father's murder. In "Death Rules The Wilderness," a long novella, in which ten-year-old Celeste Manatte witnesses the murder of her parents by a group of brigands. Fifteen years later Janeece Arcola, an RCMP Intelligence Agent assigned to investigate the case, arrives at Athabaska Landing to recruit Celeste as his guide. She is troubled at their first meeting by something she cannot quite place...