Author:Joseph Smith Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher
(1863–1935)

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Works

• Where Highways Cross (1895) illustrated by James Ayton Symington
• Anima Christi (1884) poetry IA
• Andrewlina (1889)
• The Winding Way (1890)
• Old Lattimer's Legacy (1892)
• When Charles the First Was King (1892) Vol 1of3 IA Vol 2of3 IA Vol 3of3 IA
• The Wonderful City (1894)
• At the Gate of the Fold (1896)
• The Builders (1897)
• God's Failures (1897) IA
• In The Days of Drake (1897) IA ^PG
• Mistress Spitfire (1897) IA ^PG
• At the Blue Bell Inn (1898)
• Pasquinado (1898)
• From the Broad Acres (1899)
• The Paths of the Prudent (1899) IA
• The Harvesters (1900)
• Morrison's Machine (1900)
• The Golden Spur (1901)
• The Three Days' Terror (1901)
• History of the St. Leger Stakes (1902)
• The Investigators (1902)
• The Air-Ship (1903)
• The Fear of the Night (1903)
• The Secret Way (1903)
• Lucian the Dreamer (1903) IA
• The Diamonds (US: The Diamond Murders) (1904)
• For Those Were Stirring Times! and Other Stories (1904)
• The Ivory God (1905)
• The Threshing Floor (1905)
• The Harringtons of Highcroft Farm (1907) IA
• Mr Poskitt (1907)
• The Queen of a Day (1907)
• The Harvest Moon (1908)
• Mothers in Israel (1908) IA
• Paradise Court (1908)
• The Adventures of Archer Dawe (aka: The Contents of the Coffin) (1909)
• Manchester Royal (1909)
• The Mantle of Ishmael (1909)
• The Other Sense (1909)
• The Wheatstack (1909)
• Hardican's Hollow (1910)
• Mr Poskitt's Nightcaps: Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer (1910) ^PG
• The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand (1911)
• The Adventures of Turco Bullworthy (1912)
• The Golden Venture (1912)
• The New Sun (1913)
• Perris of the Cherry Trees (1913)
• The Secret Cargo (1913)
• Paul Campenhaye, Specialist in Criminology (US: The Clue Of The Artificial Eye) (1914)
• Both of this Parish (1914)
• The Marriage Lines (1914)
• The Ransom for London (1914)
• The Shadow of Ravenscliffe (1914)
• The Wolves and the Lamb (1914)
• The King Versus Wargrave (1915)
• The Annexation Society (1916)
• Families Repaired (1916)
• The Lynne Court Spinney (US: The Mystery of Lynne Court) (aka: And Sudden Death) (aka: The Pedigreed Murder Case) (1916)
• Malvery Hold (US: The Mystery of the Hushing Pool) (1917)
• The Perilous Crossways (1917)
• The Amaranth Club (1918)
• The Middle Temple Murder (1919)
• The Cistercians in Yorkshire (1919) IA
• Droonin' Watter (US: Dead Man's Money) (1919)
• Leet Livvy (1919) Poetry in Dialect IA
• The Judge Corroborates (1919)
• The Seven Days' Secret (1919)
• The Talleyrand Maxim (1919) (transcription project)
  • as "The Secret of the Quarry" (serial, Detective Story Magazine, 1921)
• The Valley of Headstrong Men (1919)
• Dead Men's Money (1920) IA ^PG
• Exterior to the Evidence (1920)
• The Wrychester Paradise (US: The Paradise Mystery) (1920) IA ^PG
• The Orange-Yellow Diamond (1921)
• The Borough Treasurer (1921) IA ^PG
• The Chestermarke Instinct (1921) IA ^PG
• The Herapath Property (1921) IA ^PG
• The Root of All Evil (1921) ^PG
• The Heaven-Kissed Hill (1922)
• Ravensdene Court (1922)
  • as "The Mystery of Ravensdene Court" (serial in Everybody's Magazine, 1922)
• In the Mayor's Parlour (a.k.a. Behind The Panel) (1922) (external scan) ^PG
  • and as "Timeworn Town," serial in Munsey's Magazine, 1923
• The Middle of Things (1922) (transcription project)
• The Lost Mr. Linthwaite (1923)
• The Markenmore Mystery (1923)
• The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation (1922) IA ^PG
• Scarhaven Keep (1922) IA ^PG
• The Charing Cross Mystery (1923) (serialized in 1922 as "Black Money")
• The Mazaroff Murder (1923)
• The Copper Box (1923)
• The Rippling Ruby (1923)
• The Safety Pin, (1924)
• The Kang-He Vase (1924) (serialized in The Blue Book Magazine 1924, as "The Gallowstree Mystery")
• The Mortover Grange Affair (1927) (transcription project)
• The Green Rope (1927)
• The Black House in Harley Street (1928)
• Cobweb Castle (1928)

Non-fiction

• History Of Yorkshire (1898)
• The Enchanting North (1908) IA
• Memorials of a Yorkshire Parish (1917) IA
• The Making of Modern Yorkshire, 1750-1914 (1918) IA
• The Cistercians in Yorkshire (1919) IA
• Harrogate and Knaresborough (1920) IA
• Yorkshiremen of the Restoration (1921) IA

Works from magazines

• "The Death That Lurks Unseen" (novelette), in Windsor Magazine, 1898 (in book form, 1899)
• "Mine Host at Sea" in English Illustrated Magazine, Vol 30, 1903-04
• "Bottle-Nose" in English Illustrated Magazine, Vol 31, 1904 (also included in At The Blue Bell Inn, 1898)
• "Young Mr. Merrill's Love Affair" (ss), in Windsor Magazine, vol 29, 1909.
• "The Spoils to the Victor" (The Idler, Jan 1910) ss
• "Dispossessed" (The Idler, March 1910) ss
• "Held for Ransom" (The Idler, May 1910) ss
• "Love's Way in Arcadia" (Ainslee's, June 1911) ss
• "A Shot in the Night" (ss), in Cosmopolitan, Sept 1924
• "Diamond Cut Diamond" (Cosmopolitan, Feb 1925)
• "The Prince's Pearl" (Munsey's Magazine, 1927 Apr) ss
• "The Tiger Lily" (Munsey's Magazine, 1928 April) ss
• "Annie Maude from London Town" (Munsey's Magazine, 1928 June) ss
• "The Triumph of Thomasine" (Munsey's Magazine, 1928 Sept) ss

Longer works

• "The Secret of the Quarry" (Detective Story Magazine, 1921 Feb 19 ) 4-part serial
• "The Mystery of Ravensdene Court" (Everybody's Magazine, 1922 Jan) 3-part serial
• "Timeworn Town" (Munsey's Magazine, 1923 Aug) 5-part serial
• "The Gallowstree Mystery" (serial: Parts I & II of III only), in Blue Book Magazine, May–July 1924
• "Royal Amethyst" (Munsey's Magazine, 1928 March) novel

About Fletcher

• "The Mystery of J. S. Fletcher" by Alfred C. Ward (The Bookman, Feb 1925)
• "J. S. Fletcher" by J. P. Collins