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Category: Fiction

Egregious Falsehoods: Get Your Story Straight

December 9, 2022 admin Leave a comment

When I started combing the Internet for Butcher, Baker falsehoods, I didn’t have to go very far. I quickly identified…

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Posted in: Fiction, Serial Murder, True Crime

UAA Podcast: True Crime vs Perfect Crime

October 19, 2018 admin Leave a comment

What a great time we had at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), in an Alaska Book Week panel hosted by…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Fiction, Mass Murder, Serial Murder, True Crime, What Happened In Craig

The Lonesome Death of Beth van Zanten: Cousin Greg

August 3, 2018 admin Leave a comment

Beth’s foster cousin Greg Nicholas gave his first trooper interview on December 26th, the day after Beth was found. As…

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Posted in: Beth van Zanten, Butcher Baker, Fiction, Serial Murder, True Crime

Hitchhike: The Tramp, Pt. 2

February 3, 2013 admin Leave a comment

While we make our way to a full-service rest stop, the tramp falls into a routine. He takes a drink.…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Alcohol, drunk, H., hippies, hitchhiking, hitching, huck finn, huck finn is, huck finn is dead, I-90, leland e. hale, leland hale, massachusetts, panel truck, South Dakota, tramp, travel

Hitchhike: The Tramp, Pt. 1

January 27, 2013 admin Leave a comment

South Dakota. The sun is a blank white fire rolling across the sky. H. and I are squatted at an…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Alcohol, Carney James, drug abuse, drunk, Ford, hitchhiking, hitching, huck finn, huck finn is, huck finn is dead, leland e. hale, leland hale, South Dakota, tramp, travel

Hitchhike: Stein from Jersey

January 5, 2013 admin Leave a comment

His name was Stein. Driving a Ford beater, he stops to pick up H. and I just outside Missoula, Montana.…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: '60s, '70s, butcher baker, college, drug abuse, hitchhiking, hitching, huck finn is dead, I-90, I-94, leland e. hale, leland hale, LSD, new jersey, Stein, whole wheat bread

Travel Tango

December 27, 2012 admin 2 Comments

Travel is a central motif in my latest book, “Huck Finn is Dead,” albeit in the most exaggerated form: Carney…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: huck finn is dead, leland e. hale, leland hale, mate drinker, montevideo, tango, tango video, travel, uruguay, yerba mate

Remembering Robert Lescher

December 8, 2012 admin Leave a comment

Robert Lescher, of the Lescher & Lescher Literary Agency, recently passed away at the age of 83. This post is…

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Huck Finn Is Dead: Truth or Fiction?

December 2, 2012 admin Leave a comment

I don’t thoroughly subscribe to the “write what you know” dictum. I mean, come on, does that mean I have…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Amazon, Carney James, huck finn, huck finn is, huck finn is dead, leland e. hale, leland hale

Huck Finn is Dead

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In 1997, I started a book called “Huck Finn is Dead.” It made the rounds of the top New York…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Amazon, butcher baker, huck finn, huck finn is, huck finn is dead, leland e. hale, leland hale

What Happened in Craig

On a foggy afternoon in September of 1982 the Investor, a salmon fishing vessel, was engulfed in flames near the tiny village of Craig, Alaska. All efforts to stop the blaze were repulsed by the heat and fury of fire—until the blaze had run its course. Eight people, including a pregnant woman and two small children, were missing…

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