The Man with the Black Valise tracks the killer of thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith as he tramped along railway lines through rural Ontario in 1894.

John Goddard is an author, magazine writer, and former Toronto Star reporter. His books include Inside the Museums: Toronto's Heritage Sites and Their Most Prized Objects and Rock and Roll Toronto, with pop critic Richard Crouse. John lives in Toronto.

PART ONE: Death in the Swampy Wood
1. Isabella McLeod's Black Valise
2. Joseph Hall's Well
3. A Change of Mood
4. The Swampy Wood
5. Suspicion Focuses on One Man
6. The Burial
7. A Star-Crossed Life
8. Manhunt
9. "I Expected It"
10. A Shower of Silver
11. The Legal Talent
12. The Celebrity Sleuth
13. The Interrogation
14. The Coroner's Inquest
15. Confessions
16. On Trial for Murder
17. The Insanity Question
18. Ropes and Pulleys
19. Two Autopsies
20. The Healing
PART TWO: Chattelle's Route Then and Now
21. The Goddess of Flowers and Springtime

22 Ailsa Craig: Teenage Hero

23 Lucan: Mass Murder of the Black Donnellys

24 St. Marys: Amédée Chattelle Goes Shopping

25 Fryfogel's Tavern: Perth County's First Settler

26 Baden: The Flax Kings

27 Stratford: The Prisoner's Dock

28 Stratford: The Coroner's Saddest Inquest
29 Stratford: Death by Fire
30 Stratford: The Rape and Murder of Mary Peake
31 Stratford: Death at Dorothy's Delicatessen
32 Millbank: Kitchen Table Clairvoyant
33 Listowel: The Jessie Keith Memorial Tour
34 The End of the Line
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index