High Stand - Softcover

Innes, Hammond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070317380 ISBN 13: 9780070317383

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1988

Synopsis

When Tom Halliday--the playboy owner of an invaluable stand of red cedar timber--changes his will and suddenly disappears, Philip Redfern, Halliday's English solicitor, sets off for the Pacific Northwest to investigate the estate

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From Library Journal

English solicitor Philip Redfern learns that his client, millionaire playboy Tom Halliday, has disappeared soon after changing his will. Miriam Halliday seems convinced that her husband's disappearance is connected with his timber and mining interests in western Canada. Then Halliday's son reveals the existence of a curse on anyone interfering with the growth of the "high stand" of prime red cedar trees planted there by an earlier Halliday. Miriam flies to Canada in search of Tom, and Redfern eventually follows, tracking them along a trail that leads from the Yukon to Alaska and back into the Canadian wilderness for a violent confrontation with smugglers. Though the wilderness settings overshadow the action, this is another solid adventure tale from the prolific Innes. William C. McCully, Park Ridge P.L., Ill.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0070317380
• ISBN 13: 9780070317383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336