In the late 1960s, Spokane's civic leaders were desperately looking for a way to revitalize a large section of downtown, especially a motley collection of little-used railroad lines and polluted industrial sites along the Spokane River. Their solution was to use the area for Expo '74, which was billed as the first ecologically themed world's fair. Critics predicted the project was sure to fail, as Spokane was the smallest city to ever host a world's...

"Archie Prescot has traveled across the country to design the now-iconic Spokane clock tower for the new Great Northern Railroad Depot. When his talent for creating unique clock chimes connects him with a local patroness, he is thrilled, until she is discovered dead in the workshop of his new colleague. Her grand home on the South Hill provides ample suspects, as Archie works with his lodgers, Detective Carew and his twin brother, to prove his fellow...

"The Baker is in the Medical Lake asylum, which means all should be well with the world. But when a string of murders draws Marian, Archie, and the Carew brothers to her doorstep, they begin to wonder if she's at it again... Return to 1901 Spokane with Book 3 in the Spokane Clock Tower Mysteries"--Back cover.

"On May 4, 1974, in Spokane, Washington, the curtain rose on one of the most ambitious and daring projects ever attempted by an American small city -- Expo '74. Startling in its concept, innovative in its theme, optimistic in its location, Expo '74 was the first World's Fair on the Environment and the only International Exposition to be held in the United States during the Becentennial Decade of the 1970s ... This volume is a look at the Fair the...