Steve Levi

Steve Levi has spent more than 40 years researching and writing on Alaska history. He specializes in the ground-level approach to history. A good example of his in-the-weeds approach is BONFIRE SALOON, a saloon-level book of authentic Alaska Gold Rush characters in a Nome saloon on March 3, 1903. His book, THE HUMAN FACE OF THE ALASKA GOLD RUSH, is a compendium of people and events that are usually left out of scholarly books. For fiction, he specializes in the ‘impossible crime,’ where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before he can go after the perpetrators. In THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND, the detective must determine how a Greyhound bus can vanish off the Golden Gate Bridge and, in THE MATTER OF THE DEPARTED DIAMONDS, how $3 million in diamonds can disappear from a locked bank vault. 

Steve Levi
Master Of The Impossible Crime
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Fleas, Refrigerators and Fur Fish 

If you live in Alaska, a sense of humor is required. Jokes about Alaskans, on Alaskans and by Alaskans are as common as bear stories. After all, we have salmon so large they have to be transported individually strapped to trucks, clams which require the services of a flatbed and fish that grow fur – and we have the photographs to prove it!

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Alaska's Clown Prince

He was one of the Territory's most infamous bush pilots.  It wasn't that he was a great flyer, rather, he had a personality that you could absorb through your skin.  He was, quite literally, a laugh a minute.

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Alaska’s Ghost Ship, the Clara Nevada

The saga of the Clara Nevada. Here was a tale of greed, robbery and murder along with a ghostly re-visitation. But it was more than that. It is also one of the largest successful robberies in American history combined with the third largest mass murders in American history.

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The Matter of the Snitched Phantom

How can a retired Lt. Col. fly a plane that is missing?

He was in the back seat of a Phantom-Four, a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, the workhorse of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War.

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“The Building Disappeared?!”

Fresh out of graduate school, one of my early, regular jobs was teaching American History on a Top Gun base.

Really, it was!