Table of Contents
Prologue 8
Part 1 The Dead 11
Chapter 1 Tales of Murder 12
Chapter 2 "Adventurous Boys" 17
Chapter 3 Miles from Punyu 26
Chapter 4 Why they Came 32
Chapter 5 More Tales of Murder 39
Chapter 6 The Judge and "The Chinaman" 45
Chapter 7 A Personal Journey 50
Chapter 8 The Mon-Tung Camp 63
Chapter 9 Two Investigations 66
Chapter 10 "With Great Regret" 71
Chapter 11 Rock Springs and More 76
Chapter 12 "Deplorable in the Extreme" 82
Part 2 The "Innocent" 87
Chapter 13 Vaughan Confesses 88
Chapter 14 "Don't Ask ... Don't Tell" 98
Chapter 15 A Story Changes 103
Chapter 16 Behind the News 108
Chapter 17 On a Merry-Go-Round 113
Chapter 18 Claims for Corpses 117
Chapter 19 A Kind of Trial 121
Chapter 20 Wanted: Horse Thieves 129
Chapter 21 Tightening the Screws 134
Chapter 22 A Second Confession 137
Chapter 23 Blooming Flour 140
Chapter 24 Flight 144
Part 3 P.S. Keeping Secrets 153
Chapter 25 The Secret Keepers 154
Chapter 26 And Now, the Journal 167
Chapter 27 The Coffin Maker 173
Chapter 28 Memorial Not 178
Chapter 29 Horner's Epilogue 182
Epilogue 183
Appendix 185
Acknowledgments 188
Notes 189
Bibliography 201
Index 205