http://jsfletcher.com/ Recent content in Joseph Smith Fletcher on J.S. Fletcher Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us David C. Wright Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/available-titles/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/available-titles/ I have many titles available for sale. Just email me at wrighthouse3@juno.com if interested. Thank you! http://jsfletcher.com/bibliography/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/bibliography/ Mysteries Andrewlina (1889) The Winding Way (1890) Old Lattimer’s Legacy (1892) At the Blue Bell Inn (1898) (short stories) subtitled In the Days of Oliver Cromwell Pasquinado (1898) (short stories) The Death That Lurks Unseen (1899) (short stories) From the Broad Acres (1899) (short stories) Stories of rural life in Yorkshire Morrison’s Machine (1900) http://jsfletcher.com/summaries/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/summaries/ A few summaries to familiarize you with Fletcher: The Mazaroff Mystery First published in 1923, by Herbert Jenkins of London 1924, 1928 Grosset & Dunlap While touring the North of England in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce, Salim Mazaroff and Mervyn Holt depart from the Great North Road at Marrasdale Moor and reach a solitary inn. Mazaroff mysteriously disappears while walking the moors alone. His dead body is discovered in Reiver’s Den. http://jsfletcher.com/autobiography/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/autobiography/ His autobiography written in 1912. That would place him around 50 years old. He had a lot of living and writing to do before he passed out of this world. I’m going to quote from certain passages in the book. Links with a Vanished Day (Chapter 5) With the rush of modernity almost everything of the old days has gone. But forty years ago, village people were still old fashioned; they observed times and seasons; they were primitive in their emotions, and especially in their love-making; they believed in homemade remedies more than in the stuff from the doctor’s shelves, and they were by no means free of the superstitious element, which had a strong flavor of Medievalism. http://jsfletcher.com/other-authors/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/other-authors/ Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) Born in Ireland and worked for the British Railways early in his life. His first book The Cask was such a success it led him to writing more mystery novels. His main character was Inspector French who always used step by methods in solving crimes. I believe even though it is dated (1920) The Cask is a must read. I also liked Death of a Train. http://jsfletcher.com/his-wife/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/his-wife/ Rosamond Langbridge was born at Glenalla, co. Donegal, Ireland, the daughter of Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a poet (The Scales of Heaven), and playwright (The Only Way). She was brought up and educated in Limerick, where her father was rector of St. John’s until resigning due to ill-health in 1921. She contributed to newspapers such as the Manchester Guardian and the Saturday Westminster, and others. In this period of a life, she published a delightful story for children entitled ‘The Land of the Ever Young’. http://jsfletcher.com/why-i-like-him/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:41:47 -0800 http://jsfletcher.com/why-i-like-him/ J S Fletcher - why I like him He lived from 1863 to 1935 (He was born on Charles Dickens’s birthday) His ministerial father died when he was eight years old. His father was a mighty reader, and had a passion for buying books, which was not a convenient one in a man of modest income. Fletcher had heard his mother say that she was never so anxious or fidgety in her life as on the days whereon he received his quarterly stipend, for the first instinct was to depart post-haste for the book shops, there to remain until the last shilling had been expended in folios, quartos, and octavos.