Snow-blind by Albert M. Treynor

"Snow-blind" by Albert M. Treynor is a novel written in the early 20th century. It’s a northern adventure-mystery set among the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the subarctic wilderness. The story centers on Kitchener Tearl’s pursuit of a cryptic radio message that propels him after his estranged brother, Sergeant Buck Tearl, and toward the long-cold mystery of their missing father. Along the way he collides with the guarded Diane and a violent ex-con, Simeon Bent, as law, loyalty, and survival intertwine in the snowbound North. The opening of the novel begins with a radio broadcast to an RCMP outpost that Kitchener Tearl overhears in New York, stirring old family wounds: a grandfather who served the Hudson’s Bay Company, a father–Inspector Bill Tearl–who vanished twelve years earlier, and a fugitive brother, Jerry. Kit rushes north through Port-o’-Prayer, hires dogs, and falls in with a wary, scarred traveler who calls himself Jim; a night-time glimpse at the man’s ivory-handled revolver reveals it once belonged to Kit’s father. Reunited in the woods with Jerry—now Sergeant Buck—Kit learns of a gold-laden sledge, a murdered woman at Great Owl Run, and the likely guilt of Simeon Bent, while Jerry hints at a distant Inuit band led by a white man who wears a police badge. After a tense encounter with Diane, who seeks her “uncle” Jim Durand and denies sending the broadcast, the brothers agree to split: Kit will assume Jerry’s post at Saut Sauvage and shadow Bent, while Jerry heads toward Queen Maud Sea to chase the rumor that the dead do not always die. ... Read more