Walker's engravings in The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson pay homage to Thomson's contribution to Canadian culture through both representations of his own life and of the contemporary artistic community as a whole. The German Expressionists, who were active around the time Thomson was painting, often used wood engraving techniques in their own works. A ``wordless novel'' format captures the essence of Tom Thomson's artistic spirit and iconic story in an apt way-not only acknowledging the global community of artists of which he was a part, but also alluding to the multiply-interpreted circumstances of his life and death in ways that a text-based work could not.