The Glacier Gallows by Stephen Legault

Author:Stephen Legault [Legault, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General, Hard-Boiled
ISBN: 1771510579
Google: P_CVAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00HUBWC4O
Barnesnoble: B00HUBWC4O
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Published: 2013-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-EIGHT

PORCUPINE HILLS, ALBERTA. AUGUST 2.

“IS PERRY ALRIGHT?” COLE SAT on the porch of the Blackwater Ranch, using an ancient cordless phone.

“He’s fine.” Walter laughed. “A little strung out, but fine. You should see his car.”

“Whose body is it?”

“No ID yet. We’ve got a real party going on out here: FBI, BIA, Blackfeet tribal cops, even Glacier County sheriffs. The medical examiner is using an ice-cream scoop to put the body in a bag. Montana State Fish and Game is hunting down the bear.”

“But nobody thinks this bear killed whoever it was you found.”

“No way. The FBI is going to work with the ME on the postmortem, but I’ll bet they find a bullet hole in what’s left of this guy’s skull. If not that, then something else. The body was buried under a few feet of earth and rocks in the backyard. The bear sniffed it out, dug it up, and was feeding on it.”

“You think this is the missing guide, Chip Prescott?”

“I think so. Who else? It was his place. Unless Chip killed someone, buried him, and disappeared himself. Perry is pushing the feds down here to drop the extradition request immediately, but they say this changes nothing.”

“Are you on your way home?”

“Soon. Perry wants to spend some time on this. We might be home tonight, maybe tomorrow.”

“Be careful, Walt.”

“You too. Kiss Mom for me.”

Cole hung up the phone. The screen door opened and Nancy came out onto the porch and sat down. Cole filled her in on the conversation.

“So we’ve got four bodies: Brian Marriott, the two guides, and Charlie Crowfoot.”

“I’m not convinced that Blake Foreman was a guide at all. It’s just too damn convenient. I think Foreman was our guy.”

“I’ll make a few calls and see what I can come up with about him this morning. In the meantime, you’re going to want to see this,” said Nancy, opening her laptop. “Remember when we were looking at Brian’s email? I put some feelers out with a few friends in Ottawa.”

“You still have friends in Ottawa?”

Nancy smiled thinly. “No thanks to you, but yes, a few. Do you remember Nicolas Stanos?”

“The freedom-of-information guy?”

“Yeah. I used him a bunch of times when I was with the Globe and Mail to do research. He’s got this formula for freedom-of-information requests that he’s figured out. He can get just about anything short of the prime minister’s personal diary. I asked him to do some broadcast fishing on this file. I hoped to come up with a motive for why Brian was killed. I got this instead.” She pointed to an email from Stanos dated earlier that morning.

Nancy. I’ve put in a number of FOIPP requests regarding your friend Cole and his colleague Brian Marriott. I won’t hear anything for at least another few weeks. One thing I did find on the public record, however, was on the federal Attorney General’s website. I got a blind hit when using one of my custom data search engines. It looks like the federal Cabinet has waived its opposition to extradition for Mr.

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