"Benton of the Royal Mounted" is a memoir of Ralph S. Kendall in which he recalls having those good fellows with whom he served in years gone by. They were men of a type fast disappearing, with whom anyone would have been proud to associate and call "comrades." No longer do those once orderly grounds resound with the clear notes of the trumpet call, the neighing of troop horses, or the harsh-barked word of command.

"The Luck of the Mounted: A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police" by Ralph S. Kendall The North-West Mounted Police was a Canadian para-military police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories. Written by an ex-member of this police force, the book portrays the majesty and responsibility the men who take on the mantle of a mounted police enforcer must live with every day.

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically at the esteemed sixties’ television show Wojeck, as well as the more recent series Da Vinci’s Inquest, Da Vinci’s City Hall, and Intelligence, and the controversial Durham County, a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States. The essays in Detecting Canada look at texts from a variety of perspectives, including postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and critical race and class studies. Crime fiction, enjoyed by so many around the world, speaks to all of us about justice, citizenship, and important social issues in an uncertain world.