Heralded internationally as "Canada's Sherlock Holmes," John Vance was
an innovative and pioneering forensic investigator who was so successful
at solving criminal cases, he was the subject of numerous attempts on
his life. Over the course of forty-two years beginning in the 1930s,
Vance helped police detectives in British Columbia to determine murder
from suicide as well as solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of
the most sensational murder cases of the twentieth century.
Eve Lazarus is a journalist with a penchant for criminal history.
Her previous books include Cold Case Vancouver.