Frank L. Packard
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Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale.
Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.
Novels in the Jimmie Dale series:
- The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) - (Project Gutenberg book)
- The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) - (Project Gutenberg book)
- Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (1922)
- Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder (1930)
- Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour (1935)
- Return of the Grey Seal (2007) - (e-book compilation of first two books)
Other novels:
- Coogan's Last Run
- The Miracle Man (1914) - (Project Gutenberg book)
- The Sin That Was His (1917)
- The Wire Devils (1918)
- From Now On (1919)
- The Night Operator (1919)
- The White Moll (1920) - (Project Gutenberg book)
- Pawned (1921)
- Doors of the Night (1922)
- The Four Stragglers (1923)
- The Locked Book (1924)
- Running Special (1925)
- Broken Waters (1925)
- The Red Ledger (1926)
- The Devil's Mantle (1927)
- Two Stolen Idols (1927)
- Shanghai Jim (1928)
- The Big Shot (1929)
- Tiger Claws (1929)
- Gold Skull Murders (1931)
- The Hidden Door (1933)
- The Purple Ball (1933)
- The Dragon's Jaws (1937)
- More Knaves Than One (1938)
