Riddle of the Storm: A Mystery Story for Boys
Curlie Carson flies the Mackenzie River air route, delivering mail through some of the most treacherous terrain in North America. One frozen night, he spots it: the legendary 'Gray Streak,' a phantom plane whispered about in saloon corners and frontier outpostshinting at criminal deeds. When Curlie lands, he discovers a woman's handkerchief fluttering in the snow, bearing three desperate words: 'I am a captive.' The message pulls him into a mystery stretching across the arctic wilderness, where a woman named D'Arcy Arden has vanished into something far darker than the frozen landscape. Meanwhile, another thread weaves through the story, as Joyce Mills emerges in distant circumstances that will surely intertwine with Curlie's dangerous investigation. This is adventure fiction at its pulp-era finest: stark landscapes that become characters in themselves, a mystery that builds like an approaching storm, and a hero whose courage is tested not by trivial matters but by the possibility that justice itself has frozen along with the tundra.
