{"product_id":"a-murder-for-christmas-9798996371747","title":"A Murder for Christmas","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn December of 1907, on the Manitoba border, a boy killed his friend with a hatchet for a hundred dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the town threatens to lynch two innocent suspects, the state's attorney calls in a Pinkerton detective to uncover the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e B\/Throndset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996371747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Bill Throndset","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801393098933,"sku":"9798996371747","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-murder-for-christmas-9798996371747","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}