Without Justice

AVAILABLE JANUARY 29, 2027 Ten British Columbians met violent, shocking and mysterious ends between 1895 and 1928. But the victims were denied justice and their stories have been forgotten. These investigations into violent crime reveal an early multicultural society’s struggles for equitable justice. Eversole includes cold cases such as Man Quong, the well-known manager of the Chinese Theatre, who navigated a fraught underworld of opium-dealing tongs and was fatally thrashed and thrown from the theatre’s stage. The horrendous murder of Agnes Bings had citizens and the press believing the dreaded Jack the Ripper could be among them. The foggy inlets of the north coast were not a refuge for two troubled veterans of the Great War: one died from a gunshot, while the other disappeared, leaving a desperate note proclaiming his innocence.