Gold on the Ice
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 27 of 100.
Ice fishing camp on Lake Laberge, Yukon, Canada, 7:40 am. Amos Kerrigan, a prospector, vanished last night. Early this morning he was found under the ice, caught beside a hole near the ski plane.
He died in the freezing water between 9:20 pm and 9:50 pm. It looked like an accident: a dark night, thirty below zero. But the lake ice is sixty centimeters thick, and the hole was not there yesterday morning.
Amos was flying to Dawson today to register a gold claim. Besides him, three people spent the night at the camp, and no one comes or goes from here without that plane.
The camp's cook tent, the wood stove crackling, the wind beating against the canvas.
Suspects
Rowan PikeBush pilot, 48
Duncan KerriganAmos's brother, 52
Tessa CharlieFishing guide from the local First Nation, 38
Case glossary
Words from this case you might not know.
- Yukon
- A territory in northwestern Canada, famous for the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.
- ski plane
- A small aircraft fitted with skis instead of wheels so it can land on snow and ice.
- bush pilot
- A pilot who flies small planes into remote areas with no proper airports.
- prospector
- A person who searches an area for deposits of gold or other valuable minerals.
- First Nation
- In Canada, an Indigenous people or community other than the Inuit or Métis.
- Dawson
- Dawson City, a historic Yukon town born in the Klondike Gold Rush, where mining claims are registered.