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Judge Xenophon and the Foxworthy Cabal is a literary snapshot of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown in August of 1900. The boomtown, Ophir, is on the edge of either going civilized or ghost. To become civilized, it needs to legally squeeze out the crooked judge before he absconds on the last steamship of the season - in 30 days - with the gold he has been legally seizing since June. Told in 50 first-person vignettes, the novel is the epitome of small-town America where there are no secrets, and everyone knows everything about everybody.

Why would someone kill a miner, freeze his body solid on a glacier, and then drop it alongside the Juneau wharf, the one place where United States Marshal Gordon Whitford would be sure to find it? Does it have anything to do with the 250 pounds of gold that have just been extracted from the Alaska Gastineau Mine? And how were both the frozen body and the gold able to disappear off a steamship that made no stops between Juneau and Seattle?

Dead Men Do Roll Dice is the 1912 saga of millions of dollars in embezzled Alaskan gold that are being stockpiled to open a bank in Canada. The only clues are a sourdough who has been tortured, killed, and dismembered; a dewdrop of incredibly refined gold; and 18 paper balls the size of buckshot. This is a twisted tale based on historical fact which involves Alaskan gold, Mexican bananas, Pancho Villa, and the First World War. At the center of the drama is United States Marshal Gordon Whitford.

It started with a murder. And an odd one. The victim was killed with a shotgun on a steamship, and his body was dumped overboard. In a cork life vest. With a note in code to the United States Marshal in Juneau. It’s 1910, and Alaska’s wealth is threatened when President Taft takes back all coal lands. Without coal, there will be no gold mining. Steve Levi has mixed fact with fiction for a wild ride in the North with anarchists, socialists, coal, gold, murder, and the opportunity for United States Marshal Gordon Whitford to turn the tables on a cabal of East Coast coal barons.