Joseph Smith Fletcher was a journalist who was leader-writer on several newspapers before he became an author. His early books were about history but he soon turned to crime fiction.
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Joseph Smith Fletcher was a journalist who was leader-writer on several newspapers before he became an author. His early books were about history but he soon turned to crime fiction. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) Andrewlina | 1889 |
| 2) The Winding Way | 1890 |
| 3) Old Lattimer's Legacy | 1892 |
| 4) At the Blue Bell Inn (short stories) | 1898 |
| 5) Pasquinado (short stories) | 1898 |
| 6) The Death That Lurks Unseen (short stories) | 1899 |
| 7) From the Broad Acres (short stories) | 1899 |
| 8) Morrison's Machine | 1900 |
| 9) The Golden Spur | 1901 |
| 10) The Three Days' Terror | 1901 |
| 11) The Investigators | 1902 |
| 12) The Air-Ship (short stories) | 1903 |
| 13) The Fear of the Night (short stories) | 1903 |
| 14) The Secret Way | 1903 |
| 15) The Diamonds (US Title: The Diamond Murders [1929]) | 1904 |
| 16) For Those Were Stirring Times! and other stories (short stories) | 1904 |
| 17) The Threshing Floor | 1905 |
| 18) The Ivory God (short stories) | 1907 |
| 19) Mr. Poskitt (short stories) | 1907 |
| 20) The Queen of a Day | 1907 |
| 21) The Harvest Moon | 1908 |
| 22) Paradise Court | 1908 |
| 23) The Adventures of Archer Dawe, Sleuth-Hound (Also published as: The Contents of the Coffin [1928]) (short stories) | 1909 |
| 24) The Mantle of Ishmael | 1909 |
| 25) Marchester Royal | 1909 |
| 26) The Wheatstack (short stories) | 1909 |
| 27) Hardican's Hollow | 1910 |
| 28) Mr. Poskitt's Nightcaps (short stories) | 1910 |
| 29) The Aventures of Turco Bullworthy (short stories) | 1912 |
| 30) The Golden Venture | 1912 |
| 31) Perris of the Cherry Trees | 1913 |
| 32) The Secret Cargo | 1913 |
| 33) The Marriage Lines | 1914 |
| 34) Paul Campenhaye, Specialist in Criminology (US Title: The Clue of the Artificial Eye [1939]) (short stories) | 1914 |
| 35) The Ransom for London | 1914 |
| 36) The Shadow of Ravenscliffe | 1914 |
| 37) The Wolves and the Lamb | 1914 |
| 38) The King Versus Wargrave | 1915 |
| 39) The Annexation Society | 1916 |
| 40) Families Repaired | 1916 |
| 41) The Lynne Court Spinney (US Title: The Mystery of Lynne Court [1923]) (Also published as: And Sudden Death [1938]; and as:
Pedigreed Murder Case [1942]) |
1916 |
| 42) Malvery Hold (US Title: The Mystery of the Hushing Pool [1938]) | 1917 |
| 43) The Perilous Crossways | 1917 |
| 44) The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation | 1917 |
| 45) The Amaranth Club | 1918 |
| 46) The Chestermarke Instinct | 1918 |
| 47) The Borough Treasurer | 1919 |
| 48) Droonin' Watter (US Title: Dead Man's Money [1930]) | 1919 |
| 49) The Middle Temple Murder | 1919 |
| 50) The Seven Days' Secret | 1919 |
| 51) The Talleyrand Maxim | 1919 |
| 52) The Valley of Headstrong Men | 1919 |
| 53) Exterior to the Evidence | 1920 |
| 54) The Herapath Property | 1920 |
| 55) The Lost Mr. Linthwaite | 1920 |
| 56) The Orange-Yellow Diamond | 1920 |
| 57) Scarhaven Keep | 1920 |
| 58) The Root of All Evil | 1921 |
| 59) The Wrychester Paradise (US Title: The Paradise Mystery [1920]) | 1921 |
| 60) The Heaven-Kissed Hill | 1922 |
| 61) In the Mayor's Parlour (Also publshed as: The Time-Worn Town [1924]; and as: Behind the Panel [1931]) | 1922 |
| 62) The Markenmore Mystery | 1922 |
| 63) Ravensdene Court | 1922 |
| 64) The Ambitious Lady | 1923 |
| 65) The Charing Cross Mystery | 1923 |
| 66) The Copper Box | 1923 |
| 67) Many Engagements (short stories) | 1923 |
| 68) The Mazaroff Murder (US Title: The Mazaroff Mystery [1924]) | 1923 |
| 69) The Million-Dollar Diamond (US Title: The Black House in Harley Street [1928]) | 1923 |
| 70) The Mysterious Chinaman (US Title: The Rippling Ruby [1923]) | 1924 |
| 71) The Cartwright Gardens Murder | 1923 |
| 72) False Scent | 1924 |
| 73) The Kang-He Vase | 1924 |
| 74) The Safety Pin | 1924 |
| 75) The Secret of the Barbican (short stories) | 1924 |
| 76) The Bedford Row Mystery (US Title: The Strange Case of Mr. Henry Marchmont [1927]) | 1925 |
| 77) The Great Brighton Mystery | 1925 |
| 78) The Mill of Many Windows | 1925 |
| 79) Sea Fog | 1925 |
| 80) Green Ink (short stories) | 1926 |
| 81) The Massingham Butterfly (short stories) | 1926 |
| 82) The Mortover Grange Mystery (US Title: The Mortover Grange Affair [1927]) | 1926 |
| 83) The Stolen Budget (US Title: The Missing Chancellor [1927]) | 1926 |
| 84) The Bartenstein Case (US Title: The Bartenstein Mystery [1927]) | 1927 |
| 85) The Green Rope | 1927 |
| 86) The Murder in the Pallant | 1927 |
| 87) The Passenger to Folkestone | 1927 |
| 88) Behind the Monocle (short stories) | 1928 |
| 89) Cobweb Castle | 1928 |
| 90) The Double Chance | 1928 |
| 91) The Wrist Mark | 1928 |
| 92) The Box Hill Murder | 1929 |
| 93) The House in Tuesday Market | 1929 |
| 94) The Matheson Formula | 1929 |
| 95) The Ravenswood Mystery (Also publshed as: The Canterbury Mystery [1933]) (short stories) | 1929 |
| 96) The Secret of Secrets | 1929 |
| 97) The Borgia Cabinet | 1930 |
| 98) The Dressing-Room Murder | 1930 |
| 99) The Heaven-Sent Witness and other stories (short stories) | 1930 |
| 100) The Malachite Jar (Also published as: The Flamstock Mystery [1932]) (short stories) | 1930 |
| 101) The Marrendon Mystery, and other stories of crime and detection (short stories) | 1930 |
| 102) The South Foreland Murder | 1930 |
| 103) The Yorkshire Moorland Murder | 1930 |
| 104) The Guarded Room | 1931 |
| 105) The Man in No. 3 (short stories) | 1931 |
| 106) Murder at Wrides Park | 1931 |
| 107) Murder in Four Degrees | 1931 |
| 108) Safe Number Sixty-Nine (short stories) | 1931 |
| 109) The Burma Ruby | 1932 |
| 110) The Man in the Fur Coat (short stories) | 1932 |
| 111) Murder in the Squire's Pew | 1932 |
| 112) Murder of the Ninth Baronet | 1932 |
| 113) The Solution of a Mystery (short stories) | 1932 |
| 114) Find the Woman | 1933 |
| 115) The Murder in Medora Mansions (short stories) | 1933 |
| 116) Murder of the Only Witness | 1933 |
| 117) The Mystery of the London Banker (US Title: Murder of a Banker [1933]) | 1933 |
| 118) Who Killed Alfred Snowe? (US Title: Murder of the Lawyer's Clerk [1933]) | 1933 |
| 119) The Ebony Box | 1934 |
| 120) Murder ot the Secret Agent | 1934 |
| 121) The Carrismore Ruby (short stories) | 1935 |
| 122) The Eleventh Hour | 1935 |
| 123) Todmanhaw Grange (US Title: The Mill House Murder [1937]) | 1937 |