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Overview: Arthur Mayse was born in Manitoba and moved to British Columbia at an early age. He attended the University of British Columbia and then began working in a variety of journalism positions that would take him from Vancouver to Toronto. Mayse was a successful story writer from the 1940s to the 1960s. During this time he sold hundreds of short stories to major American and Canadian publications and published 3 novels, including "Desperate Search" which was later made into a motion picture. The Mayse family moved back to B.C. and in his later years he enjoyed a different kind of writing challenge, writing as a columnist for the Victoria Daily Times (1963-1972), and continuing afterwards to write weekly columns for various western newspapers. In collaboration with his wife, Win, he wrote scripts for the CBC television program, Beachcombers.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Perilous Passage
The Saturday Evening Post, May 14-June 25, 1949, Volume 221, Issues 46-52
When 19-year-old Oregon runaway Clint Farrell comes to, he’s beat to a pulp and suffering temporary amnesia on a salmon troller in an island passage far up the British Columbia coast, and an 18-year-old girl is bending over him with a short-barreled .22. Rumrunning, opium smuggling, mysterious drownings, a deadly tidal passage that can swallow a survey ship whole, and one heck of a lovely stump farm under the summer sun—Perilous Passage is mystery adventure at its very finest.
The Desperate Search
The Saturday Evening Post, January 5-February 9, 1952, Volume 224, Issues 27-32
East away, a spark burned through the fog with the dull and evil red of a warrior star. This was what Vince Ardagh waited for, the rush of sound, the blurred shape of the burning airliner settling toward the runway. In that loaded second, waiting for the crash, Vince went beyond panic. But the crash did not happen then. Vince watched the plane rise again and dwindle into the fog, carrying his two children to some final, terrible destination. Ardagh was a bush pilot, operating through out British Columbia. He knew the treacherous fogs, the jagged mountains, the sullen ocean beyond. And all his lonely love centered on a little boy and girl aboard the doomed aircraft. Julia Thorne, a reporter assigned to the case, believed with him that the children were alive and supported him heart and soul…
Desperate Search became the basis for a 1953 MGM movie of the same name starring Howard Keel and Jane Greer.
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