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Canadian author who wrote as Frank L. Packard. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. — Excerpted from Frank Lucius Packard on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Works
(Partial list)
Jimmie Dale series
- The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917)
- The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) (transcription project)
- Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (1922) (Commons file)
- Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder (1930) Gutenberg Canada
- Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour (1935)
Railroad fiction
- On the Iron at Big Cloud (1911) Short stories
- The Wire Devils (1918) (transcription project)
- The Night Operator (1919) (transcription project)
- Running Special (1925) Short stories
- The Builder — The Guardian of the Devil's Slide — Corrigan's Bes — The Hobo — Shanley's Luck — Marley — "It Doesn't Matter" — Spitzer — The Man Who Confessed — The Blood of Kings
Other works
- Greater Love Hath No Man (1913)
- The Miracle Man (1914) (transcription project) ("Photoplay" illus. print)
- The Belovéd Traitor (1915) Project Gutenberg (transcription project)
- The Iron Rider (1916), Western novel, first published in the All-Story Weekly, April 1916
- The Sin That Was His (1917) Project Gutenberg
- From Now On (1919) Project Gutenberg
- The White Moll (1920)
- Pawned (1921) Project Gutenberg
- Doors of the Night (1922) Project Gutenberg
- The Four Stragglers (1923)
- The Locked Book (1924)
- More Knaves Than One (1938)
- More Knaves Than One — The King of Fools — Behind The Masks — The Devil Sits In
Individual stories
- "The Age Limit" Short story from The Popular Magazine, Nov 1914. Also included in The Night Operator.
- "Coogan's Last Run" (1918) Short story from Top-Notch Magazine, Feb 1918; also as a novella. (A slightly reworked version of "The Guardian of the Devil's Slide", 1911).
- "The Wrecking Boss" (1912) short story from the Popular Magazine, Dec 18, 1912. Also included in The Night Operator.
- "Corporal Bob" short story from Munsey's Magazine April 1906
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 1942, 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 75 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.