An English
writer, principly of historical romances and detective
stories.
Short Stories
At A
Winter's Fire, C.A. Pearson (London), 1899
(Including: "The Vanishing House", "Dark Dignum",
"William Yrwhity's Copy", "An Eddy on the Floor", "The Black
Reaper", "A Voice from the Pit".)
ditto, Doubleday, Page & Co. (New York), 1899
From Door
to Door,
Frederick A. Stokes (New York), 1900
(A
mixed collection with several supernatural stories)
Plots, Methuen (London), 1902
(Including: "The Accursed Cordonnier", "The
Devil's Fantasia", "The Green Bottle", "Plots", "The Plot of the
Fearful Head", "The Face on the Sheet",.)
Loaves
and Fishes,
Methuen (London), 1906
(Including: "A Ghost-Child", "The Ghost-Leech",
"Poor Lucy Rivers", "Jack the Skipper", "The Jade Button".)
Bag and
Baggage,
Constable (London), 1913
(Including: "Tony's Drum", "The Corner House",
"John Field's Return", "The Hamadryad", "The Voice", "The Poison
Bottle".)
The
Fabulists,
Mills and Boon (London), 1915
(Including: "The Petroleuse", "Danse-Macabre",
"The Marble Hands", "The Glass Bell", "The Queer Picture", "The
Footsteps", "The White Hare", "The Thing in the Forest", "Sub
Specie", "The Dark Compartment", "The Blue Dragon", "The Closed
Door".)
The Black
Reaper,
Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft, British Columbia), 1998
(Edited, with an Introduction by Hugh Lamb.
Including: "The Black Reaper", "The Vanishing House", "The Thing
in the Forest", "The Accursed Cordonnier", "The Shadow-Dance",
"William Tyrwhitt"s "Copy"", "A Queer Cicerone", "A Gallows-Bird",
"The Sword of Corporal Lacoste", "The Glass Ball", "Poor Lucy
Rivers", "The Apothecary"s Revenge", "The Green Bottle", "The
Closed Door", "The Dark Compartment", "The Marble Hands", "The
Moon Stricken", "The Queer Picture", "Dark Dignum", "The Mask",
"The Strength of the Rope", "The White Hare", "An Eddy on the
Floor".)
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