No country has had as many stories written about its national police force as Canada. The sterling image of the scarlet-coated Mountie was almost as familiar a symbol as the ubiquitous cowboy in American fiction. And nowhere was he more popular than in the dynamic pulp fiction magazines. During the '20s, '30s, and '40s, tales featuring rugged Mounties maintaining the law of the untamed North were so popular that a number of authors built careers specializing in their exploits. This is a generous collection of such stories, as flamboyant and red-blooded as the publications in which they first appeared.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad, except for two stories,
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Not a bad anthology. Hugh B. Cave's "White Water Run" is really good, exciting and twisty; John Starr's "Phantom Fangs" is good as well; and a few of the other pieces are worth reading.
Frederick Nebel (whose works I usually love) is represented by a pretty bad story, "The Valley of Wanted Men", in which two Mounties investigating a murder discover a hidden settlement of criminals governed by a mysterious "Master". They and two other guys win a wildly improbably gun battle against thirty criminals, rescue the two maidens (with whom the Mounties have fallen instantly in love), unmask the Master (who is masquerading as a Jesuit missionary), marry the girls, and live happily ever after. The writing, unusually for Nebel, is kind of pedestrian; the plot is ridiculous. But the worst piece in the book is "The Frozen Phantom" by Lester Dent. It's not only bad, it's unspeakably, horribly bad. A Mountie is sent to investigate a place where some people have sighted a "flame maiden" and others have gone insane; which would be OK, but the writing is appalling, almost unreadably so, and the plot is utterly stupid both in its general outline and in its details. Absurdities abound; for instance, it turns out the people are going mad because they've been locked for hours in a box made of pitchblende bricks, and the radium has destroyed their minds.
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