Fool's Gold

by Ted Wood

Book Overview

A killer mines the wilds of Canada for victims. On the case: police chief Reid Bennett, "one of the most interesting series whodunit heroes of the decade" (Chicago Sun-Times). When gold is found in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684185687
• ISBN13: 9780684185682
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fool's Gold by Ted Wood (A Reid Bennett novel)

Description from the book back cover: Fool's Gold is a grittily authentic adventure set deep in the Canadian woods. In his fourth outing, Vietnam Veteran Reid Bennett, one-man police force in Murphy's Harbour, Ontario, is sent to investigate the killing of Jim Prudhomme, a mining company geologist apparently mauled by a bear. It should have been an open and shut case, but the clues just don't add up - there are no bear tracks, and a lady of the night swears she saw Prudhomme a few nights after his murder. Within days another body turns up, and this time it is unmistakably Prudhomme, leading Bennett and his german shepherd Sam to move quickly onto the trail of the killer, just to keep ahead of the crimes ...