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Ghosts Returning
Based on a real North-West Mounted Police case, this is a fictionalized account of a Mountie investigation into a murder and kidnapping.
Author Harwood Steele interviewed some of the Mounties and Blood Indians who had been involved in the manhunt.
For Constable John Mayne, raw yet "terribly willing" recruit, Sergeant Scarlet Grier (called "Scarlet" because he reminded his comrades of A STUDY IN SCARLET, that newly published bestseller presenting Sherlock Holmes) and Calf Shirt, Mounted Police scout, ex-war chief of the Bloods and medicine man, it meant the beginning of an immense detective problem and a long, adventurous quest into the Land of the Long Knives...
Author Harwood Steele interviewed some of the Mounties and Blood Indians who had been involved in the manhunt.
For Constable John Mayne, raw yet "terribly willing" recruit, Sergeant Scarlet Grier (called "Scarlet" because he reminded his comrades of A STUDY IN SCARLET, that newly published bestseller presenting Sherlock Holmes) and Calf Shirt, Mounted Police scout, ex-war chief of the Bloods and medicine man, it meant the beginning of an immense detective problem and a long, adventurous quest into the Land of the Long Knives...
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First published March 1, 1950
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About the author
Harwood Steele
23 books1 followerThe only son of Superintendent Samuel Benfield Steele of the North-West Mounted Police, Harwood Elmes Robert Steele (1897-1978) grew up among Canadian Mounties.
He got the inside scoop of Sam Steele’s life and character, as well as hearing the stories of police veterans and serving members who “took time out for a chat about old days or for a rest from a tough patrol."
In 1915, on his eighteenth birthday, he joined the Canadian Infantry. He served with distinction on the battlefields of Flanders, rising to the rank of Major.
Following WWI, Harwood worked as a journalist, took part in the historic Canadian Government Sovereignty Expedition into the High Arctic of 1925 and set out to write short stories and novels.
Most of his fiction was about the Mounted Police.
He got the inside scoop of Sam Steele’s life and character, as well as hearing the stories of police veterans and serving members who “took time out for a chat about old days or for a rest from a tough patrol."
In 1915, on his eighteenth birthday, he joined the Canadian Infantry. He served with distinction on the battlefields of Flanders, rising to the rank of Major.
Following WWI, Harwood worked as a journalist, took part in the historic Canadian Government Sovereignty Expedition into the High Arctic of 1925 and set out to write short stories and novels.
Most of his fiction was about the Mounted Police.
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November 13, 2017
Author Harwood Steele, son of Sam Steele, greatest Mountie of them all, knew his stuff. And GHOSTS RETURNING is maybe his best Mounted Police novel.
Fort Macleod was the principal post of the early North-West Mounted Police, guarding the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
On a quiet midnight of mid-July, 1889, when the post lay sleeping under a brilliant full moon, the call came:
"Turn out!"
Based on “an almost forgotten official report of the U. S. government” about the forbidden Indian Ghost Dancers, and personal accounts told to Harwood over the years by retired Mounties and Blood Indians such as Chief Joe Bull Shields, GHOSTS RETURNING is the rousing story of the pursuit of a murderer and kidnapper into the Land of the Long Knives.
Sergeant “Scarlet” Grier, Constable John Mayne and (“ex-war chief and medicine man of the Bloods”) Mounted Police scout Calf Shirt lead the desperate chase…
Yes, to me, Harwood Steele was the best storyteller of the historic North-West Mounted Police.
As the notes on the back cover of the Ryerson Press edition of his GHOSTS RETURNING say:
"His stories have the authentic flavour, are the real thing, based on 'inside information' gathered when veterans get together; when the overworked, gallant men still serving take time out for a chat about old days or for a rest from a tough patrol; when a murderer goes by under escort; when a new name is added to the hundreds on the Roll of Honour of those who died doing their duty; and when laughter mingles inextricably with tears...
"The reader will close the book feeling that he has actually been admitted to the inner circle, that through these pages he really knows the Force."
To read more about the Life and Works of Harwood Steele, see http://www.CivilizedBears.com/Greates...
- Brian Alan Burhoe
www.CivilizedBears.com
Fort Macleod was the principal post of the early North-West Mounted Police, guarding the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
On a quiet midnight of mid-July, 1889, when the post lay sleeping under a brilliant full moon, the call came:
"Turn out!"
Based on “an almost forgotten official report of the U. S. government” about the forbidden Indian Ghost Dancers, and personal accounts told to Harwood over the years by retired Mounties and Blood Indians such as Chief Joe Bull Shields, GHOSTS RETURNING is the rousing story of the pursuit of a murderer and kidnapper into the Land of the Long Knives.
Sergeant “Scarlet” Grier, Constable John Mayne and (“ex-war chief and medicine man of the Bloods”) Mounted Police scout Calf Shirt lead the desperate chase…
Yes, to me, Harwood Steele was the best storyteller of the historic North-West Mounted Police.
As the notes on the back cover of the Ryerson Press edition of his GHOSTS RETURNING say:
"His stories have the authentic flavour, are the real thing, based on 'inside information' gathered when veterans get together; when the overworked, gallant men still serving take time out for a chat about old days or for a rest from a tough patrol; when a murderer goes by under escort; when a new name is added to the hundreds on the Roll of Honour of those who died doing their duty; and when laughter mingles inextricably with tears...
"The reader will close the book feeling that he has actually been admitted to the inner circle, that through these pages he really knows the Force."
To read more about the Life and Works of Harwood Steele, see http://www.CivilizedBears.com/Greates...
- Brian Alan Burhoe
www.CivilizedBears.com
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