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.