‘Who Killed Janet Smith?’ examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian History: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith. Originally published in 1984, and out of print for over a decade, this tale of intrigue, racism, privilege, and corruption in high places as a true-crime recreation that reads like a complex thriller.

We are pleased to be reissuing this title as part of the City of Vancouver’s Legacy Book Project.

“… drug traffic, Roaring Twenties hedonism, official corruption, cutthroat competition among newspapers, a public taste for occultism, etc.- and entrust the whole works to a good storyteller, and you have one terrific political history of Vancouver.” – Geist Magazine

“Starkins cuts away at the layers with the delicacy of a neurosurgeon. What he uncovers almost defies belief.” – Quill & Quire