Dead Men Do Come Back is the saga of United States Marshal Gordon Whitford in Juneau, Territory of Alaska in the summer of 1910. Whitford is called to the city dock where he finds a dead sourdough floating in the frigid water of the Gastineau Channel. The sourdough's daughter-in-law comes to Juneau to claim the body where she begins an affair with Whitford. What Whitford does not know is that the murder of the sourdough is a set up for a robbery of a gold mine. What the thieves do not know is that they are being set up by the manager of the mine.