The Court of Better Fiction: Three Trials, Two Executions, and Arctic Sovereignty

by Debra Komar

2020 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Crime Book -- Shortlisted
In its rush to establish dominion over the North, Canada executed two innocent Inuit.

In 1921, the RCMP arrested two Inuit males suspected of killing their uncle. While in custody, one of the accused allegedly killed a police officer and a Hudson's Bay Company trader.

The Canadian government hastily established an unprecedented court in the Arctic, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145974408X
• ISBN13: 9781459744080
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"