From the desk of Marlys Rudeen - Deputy State Librarian Traipsing through issues of the San Juan Islander for January-April 1907 is serious business. For the islanders are a litigious lot and there seems to be a fair amount of news regarding lawyers, courts, suits and arrests in what we think of today as an idyllic vacation spot.
With Big Bertha in the news on a regular basis we got to thinking about boring machines in general. Or rather, interesting boring machines.
From the desk of Marlys Rudeen I will admit to a weakness for a murder mystery – but one from the early 1920’s with shady characters, a missing trunk, divers in Lake Union, forgery, fraud and general unsavoriness? Well, that’s irresistible. And all done up in purple prose by the Seattle Star?
