Author:Frank Gelett Burgess

Frank Gelett Burgess
(1866–1951)

Frank Gelett Burgess

Works

(partial list)

• The Master of Mysteries (1912) short stories
• Ain't Angie Awful! (1923); novelette

• Vivette (1897)
• The Lively City O'Ligg (1899) juvenile
• Goops, and How to be Them (1900) juvenile
• A Gage of Youth (1901); poems, chiefly from The Lark
• The Burgess Nonsense Book (1901);
• The Romance of the Commonplace (1901)
• More Goops, and How Not to Be Them (1903); juvenile
• The Reign of Queen Isyl (1903); short stories, with Will Irwin
• The Picaroons (1904); short stories, with Will Irwin
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne (1904); satire
• Goop Tales (1904); juvenile
• A Little Sister of Destiny (1904); short stories
• Are You a Bromide? (1906); novella
• The White Cat (1907); novel
• The Heart Line (1907); novel
• The Maxims of Methuselah (1907); satire
• Blue Goops and Red (1909); juvenile
• Lady Mechante (1909); novel
• Find the Woman (1911); novel
• The Maxims of Noah (1913)
• War, the Creator (magazine essay 1915, book 1916)
• Mrs. Hope's Husband (1917)
• The Goop Encyclopedia: Containing Every Child's Every Fault (1916); juvenile
• Have You an Educated Heart? (1923)

Short works from magazines

• "All's Fair" in Metropolitan vol. 24, 1906
• "Beating 'Em to It!" in Collier's, Jan 11, 1913
• "Dinarzade's Three Weeks: Or, the Thousand-and-one Words' Entertainment" in Century Magazine, Aug 1917
• "Glass Houses. A psychological comedy" (ss) Century Magazine, 1900
• "A Question of Caste" The Smart Set, March 1900
• "A Graphical Solution" (ss) Century Magazine, Feb 1898
• "Lady Méchante" (nvt) The Smart Set, 1900
• "The Magazines of the Trenches" (n-f) Century Magazine, Sep 1916
• "The Maxims of Methuselah" (satire) The Smart Set, Sep 1904
• "The Midnight Matchmaker" (ss) The Smart Set, Jun 1901
• "Mrs. Noah's Ark" in Harper's Magazine, Jul 1904
• "The Purloined Christmas" (ss) in St. Nicholas, 1897
• "The Trials of a Department Store Critic" (ss) Collier's Nov 6, 1909
• "The Visionists" in Smart Set, May 1905

Verse

• "Dighton is Engaged" The Smart Set, Jul 1901
• "The Martyr of the Suburbs" The Smart Set, Jul 1905

As Braghampton

(included in The Master of Mysteries, 1912)

• The Fanshawe Ghost
• Missing John Hudson
• The Stolen Shakespeare
• The MacDougal Street Affair
• The Denton Boudoir Mystery
• The Lorsson Elopement
• The Calendon Kidnapping Case
• The Count's Comedy
• The Luck Of The Merringtons
• The Two Miss Mannings
• Mrs Stellery's Letters
• Why Mrs Burbank Ran Away
• The Trouble With Tulliver
• Priscilla's Presents
• Van Asten's Visitor
• The Lady In Taupe
• The Heir To Soothoid
• Number Thirteen
• Vengeance Of The Pi Rho Nu
• Black Light
• The Middlebury Murder
• Mrs. Selwyn's Emerald
• The Assassins' Club
• Miss Dalrymple's Locket