Two Miles High and Six Feet Under
By Gary E. Smith (Edu’69; MPubAd’71)
(Outskirts Press, 253 pages; 2017)
The people of Leadville, Colo., decided that to recover from the depression of 1893, they needed a tourist attraction. They built an ice palace with 500 tons of ice and held a winter festival called the Crystal Carnival. Andrew Coyle was hired to audit the Crystal Carnival financial records and investigate a mysterious corpse that was found frozen in a block of ice. Was it an accident or was it murder? If it was not an accident, who was the murderer? In attempting to find the answers, Coyle is caught in a mountain avalanche, nearly hit by a runaway toboggan and finally knocked unconscious by a blow to the head and left to freeze to death. Two Miles High and Six Feet Under is Gary E. Smith’s (Edu’69; MPubAd’71) second mystery novel, written under the pen name G. Eldon Smith.