Since it's August and hot, how about a nice snowy Mountie cover? Here's one on this issue of ARGOSY, courtesy of artist V.E. Pyles. Inside is the usual all-star lineup of authors often found in ARGOSY: H. Bedford-Jones, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Theodore Roscoe, Donald Barr Chidsey, Bennett Foster, and Frank Richardson Pierce. That featured serial, "The Redcoat Renegade" (good title), is by an author I'm not familiar with, Patrick Lee. The Fictionmags Index credits him with only five stories and doesn't mention the name being a pseudonym. If anyone has any further information about him, I'd be glad to see it.
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I think that the complete name is Herbert Patrick Lee author of: " Policing the Top Of the World: The Experience of a Private in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in the Most Northerly Post in Canada: Ellesmere Island" London, John Lane 1928.
In the RCMP Quarterly, Pag. 26 1972 you can read: Herbert Patrick Lee joined the RCMP feb. 10, 1921. With the exception of seven weeks, he served continuously until jan 3, 1925.
So i guess that his stories are an heritage of his militar service in the Mounties.
He wrote at least one mystery novel: "Hell's Harbour", Melrose 1936 (cfr. Crime Fiction II" By Allen J. Hubin 1994. You can find the image of the illustrated cover in Google Images.
Best,
Tiziano Agnelli
Many thanks for the information! It sounds like Lee's work might be worth reading.
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