Arthur D. Howden Smith

His experiences he recounted in 1908 in the book Fighting the Turk in the Balkans, describing the revolutionary struggle in Macedonia.

[2] Smith began writing by contributing fiction to pulp magazines; his main market was Adventure.

This revolved around a cursed sword created during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III and its subsequent appearances through world history.

[1][7] Smith also wrote "The Doom Trail" (1921) and its sequel "Beyond the Sunset", the adventures of Harry Ormerod, an 18th-century English exile, in the frontier of Colonial North America at the Iroqois country where a fierce struggle is waged with French agents out of Canada for control of the fur trade.

[2] In Porto Bello Gold (1924), a prequel to Treasure Island – written with the permission of Robert Louis Stevenson's executor, Lloyd Osbourne – Harry Ormerod's son Robert goes to sea in the company of such famous pirates as Captain Flint, Long John Silver and Billy Bones and takes part in capturing the treasure which would be recovered in Stevenson's book.