Author:Frank Lucius Packard

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Frank Lucius Packard
(1877–1942)

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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. Warning: template has been deprecated.

Works edit

(Partial list)

Jimmie Dale series edit

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 edit

On the Iron at Big Cloud (1911) Short stories
- Rafferty's Rule — The Little Super — "If a Man Die" — Spitzer — Shanley's Luck — The Builder — The Guardian of the Devil's Slide — The Blood of Kings — Marley — The Man who didn't Count — "Where's Haggerty?" — McQueen's Hobby — The Rebate — Speckles — Munford
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 edit

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) (external scan)
The Red Ledger (1926)
The Devil's Mantle (1927
More Knaves Than One (1938)

More Knaves Than One — The King of Fools — Behind The Masks — The Devil Sits In

Works from periodicals edit

"Corporal Bob" short story from Munsey's Magazine April 1906
"Munford. A Story of Railroad Life" (1909 April, The Outing Magazine) article?
"The People vs. Buck Burley" (1910 Jan, Cosmopolitan) ss
"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").
"The Wrecking Boss" (1912) short story from the Popular Magazine, Dec 18, 1912. Also included in The Night Operator.
"Contraband" (1922 June, Sea Stories) novelette

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1942, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 81 years or less. These works may 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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