John R. Coryell

John Russell Coryell (1848–1924) was a prolific dime novel author. He wrote under the Nicolas Carter and Bertha M. Clay house pseudonyms, and, like many of his fellow dime novelists under many other pseudonyms, including Tyman Currio, Lillian R. Drayton, Julia Edwards, Geraldine Fleming, Margaret Grant, Barbara Howard, Harry Dubois Milman, Milton Quarterly and Lucy May Russell.^[1]

Bibliography

Novels

Feuilleton/serial novels

• Le Marquis français ou détective par vengeance, New York Weekly (1884)

Novels

Nick Carter series

• The Old Detective's Pupil (1887)
• A Wall Street Haul (1887)
• Fighting Against Millions (1888)
• The Crime of a Contess (1888)
• A Titled Counterfeiter (1888)
• A Woman's Head (1888)

Non-Nick Carter novels

• The Hound of Marat (1915)
• The Blue Rose (1916)
• Strasbourg Rose serialized in four parts, 1919

Novellas

• How Sin Hop Went Ashore (1882)
• The Largest Pet in the World (1883)
• The Midget Sheep (1883)
• Snow-Shoes and No Shoes (1883)
• A Submarine Fire-Eater (1883)
• Pigmy Trees and Miniature Landscapes (1884), in collaboration with James Carter Beard
• The Spider and the Tuning Fork (1884)
• Swordsmen of the Deep (1884)
• The Romance of the Menagerie (1884), in collaboration with James Carter Beard
• Baby Deb "P'ays" for the Christmas Goose (1885)
• Cased in Armor (1885)
• Honey Hunters (1885)
• The Rajah's Paper Cutter (1885)
• The King of the Frozen North (1886)
• Savage and Cowardly (1886)
• St. Nicholas Dog Stories - A Clever Little Yellow Dog (1886)
• Wild Hunters (1886)
• A Scheming Old Santa Claus (1886)
• The Strange Doings of the Kiwi (1887)
• Elephants at Work (1887)
• Lassoing a Sea-Lion (1889)
• Sweet Memories (1889)
• Jokers of the Menagerie (1889)
• Wolves of the Sea (1890)
• A Rat's Cheveux de Frise (1890)
• Sallie Drew's Vocation (1914)
• A Modern Gulliver's Travels (1915)
• Talking Talbot (1915)
• The Bundle of Bonds (1916)
• The Gilded Eros (1917)
• Dorothy Meade's Problem (1917)
• The Blotted Combinaison (1918)
• Stenographer of Wife? (1922)
• The Dragon's Eye (1922)
• The Girl is in the Main Thing (1923)
• What Chance Has a Mere Husband Against a Poodle? (1923)
• The Girl Who Found Her Own Soul (1923)
• A Factory Girl's Romance (1924)

Scientific American articles

• "The Chinese Junk". Scientific American. 4 (8). 25 August 1883. 
• "The Termite Pest of the Old World". Scientific American. 5 (10). 8 September 1888. 
• "The Glyptodon". Scientific American. 5 (15). 13 October 1888. 
• "The Florida Manatee". Scientific American. 5 (18). 3 November 1888. 
• "The Great Tumble Weed of the Prairies". Scientific American. 47 (23). 2 December 1882. 
• "Gulling the Pelican". Scientific American. 48 (22). 2 June 1883. 
• "A Sheep Destroyer". Scientific American. 51 (19). 8 November 1884. 
• "The California Roadrunner". Scientific American. 54 (4). 23 January 1886. 
• "The Zarabatana of the Macoushies". Scientific American. 55 (8). 21 August 1886. 

See also

• Nick Carter (literary character)

References

Further reading

• Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 1
• Ralph F. Cummings (1933). Dime novel authors, 1860-1900. R. F. Cummings. 
• "Living My Life by Emma Goldman

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