Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail (1913) by James Oliver Curwood - Curwood combines romance and murder in this wilderness adventure. This is the story of a lawman in Canada's frozen north who unintentionally falls for the wife of a murder. He is on the quest of his life, but it is a risk that could prove his ending. Nevertheless, he will see it through for Isobel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR James "Jim" Curwood (1878-1927) was an American action-adventure writer who often wrote about the Yukon or Alaska. He was one of the Top 10 bestselling U.S. authors in the early 1920s.