Larry Dixon's Cabin: Sample Chapters

In the summer of 1917, a young painter named Tom Thomson disappeared beneath the waters of Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. His death was ruled accidental, yet questions have lingered for more than a century.

What really happened on Canoe Lake that summer?

Larry Dixon’s Cabin, by John Little and R.J. Anderson, is a gripping historical fiction mystery that explores one of Canada’s most enduring unsolved stories.

The novel unfolds across two timelines:

• Algonquin Park, 1917 – where artists, guides, and visitors at Mowat Lodge quietly witness tensions surrounding Thomson in the weeks before his death.
• Toronto, 1977 – where a struggling journalist begins an investigation that slowly uncovers secrets buried for sixty years.

At the center of the story is a mysterious painting known as “Larry Dixon’s Cabin.”
What begins as curiosity soon leads to hidden motives, forgotten witnesses, and the possibility that Thomson’s death was not an accident at all.

Click here to download the first two chapters of Larry Dixon's Cabin.