Cleveland Moffett
(1863–1926)

American journalist, author, and playwright. His mystery short The Mysterious Card had the novelty of not revealing the answer to the puzzle posed, thereby gaining widespread attention; it was followed up a year later by The Mysterious Card Revealed

Cleveland Moffett

Works

  • True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons (1897) Non-fiction PG
  • Real Detective Stories (1898)
  • Careers of Danger and Daring (1901) PG
  • Money Talks (1905)
  • Esther Frear (1906) with Félicien Pascal
  • Playing the Game(1906), with Hartley Davis
  • A King in Rags (1907)
  • The Battle (1908) play
  • Through the Wall (1909) IA
  • Greater Than the Law (1912)
  • The Bishop's Purse (1913) with Oliver Herford
  • The Land of Mystery (1913)
  • The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Recovery, U.S.A., 1921 A.D. (1916) PG
  • Possessed (1920) PG
  • Glint of Wings; the story of a modern girl who wanted her liberty—and got it (1922), with Virginia Hall
  • The Seine mystery (1925)

Translations

Individual short works

Non-fiction

  • "Consider the Moving Staircase" in Live Stories, May 1919
  • "Into the Crater of a Volcano" (n-f) Century Magazine, Jul 1915
  • "John Milne: Observer of Earthquakes," McClure's Magazine, Vol 10, 1898
  • "Marconi's Wireless Telegraph" (n-f) McClure's Magazine, Jun 1899
  • "Menelik and His People" (n-f) McClure's Magazine, Sep 1899
  • "Paris Pawnshops" (n-f) Century Magazine, Jan 1903
  • "Winning the First International Balloon Race," McClure's Magazine, Sep 1907

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1926, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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