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Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard (1876–1922)

Author of Sniping in France

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Includes the names: H. Heron, Hesket Prichard, Hesketh Prichard, H. Hesketh Prichard, H. HESKETH-PRITCHARD, Major H Hesketh-Prichard, Hesketh Hesketh-Pritchard, H. Hesketh-Prichard Dso Mc, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard, Major H. Hestketh-Prichard (DSO MC)

Image credit: Hesketh Prichard from the frontispiece of his 1910 book Hunting camps in wood and wilderness.

Works by Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard

Sniping in France (1920) 60 copies
The Experiences of Flaxman Low (2003) 18 copies
Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across and About Hayti (1910) 15 copies
Through the Heart of Patagonia (1911) 11 copies
November Joe: The Detective of the Woods (1920) 10 copies
The Story of Baelbrow — Author — 8 copies
Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist, Collected Stories (2012) — Author — 7 copies
A Modern Mercenary (1899) 5 copies
Supernatural Detectives 3: Flaxman Low / Lord Syfret (2011) 5 copies
The Story of Yand Manor House — Author — 5 copies
Ghost Stories (2007) — Author — 5 copies
The Story of Konnor Old House — Author — 4 copies
Don Q's love story (2013) 3 copies
Flaxman Low, Psychic Detective (1899) — Author — 3 copies
The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith — Author — 3 copies
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More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Cosmopolitan Crimes (1971) — Contributor — 174 copies
Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology (1991) — Contributor — 172 copies
Victorian Nightmares (1977) — Contributor — 162 copies
Shadows of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Collection) (1998) — Contributor — 156 copies
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (2011) — Contributor — 138 copies
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (2008) — Contributor — 107 copies
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 (1656) — Contributor — 50 copies
The Black Veil and Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths (2007) — Contributor — 49 copies
Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories (2020) — Contributor — 48 copies
The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection (2022) — Contributor — 45 copies
Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard (1980) — Contributor — 40 copies
A Treasury of Victorian Detective Stories (1979) — Contributor — 31 copies
Detective Mysteries Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contributor — 26 copies
Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural (2002) — Contributor — 26 copies
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing (2017) — Contributor — 23 copies
Supernatural Sherlocks : Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2017) — Contributor — 21 copies
The Rivals of Dracula: Stories from the Golden Age of Gothic Horror (2015) — Contributor — 19 copies
Dracula's Brethren (2017) — Contributor — 17 copies
Tales to Freeze the Blood: More Great Ghost Stories (2006) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse (1988) — Contributor — 11 copies
M Is for Monster: A Modern Bestiary of Classic Monsters (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies
Toward the Golden Age: The Stories That Turned Crime to Gold (2016) — Contributor — 8 copies
Out of the Sand: Mummies, Pyramids, and Egyptology in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980) — Contributor — 3 copies
Maddened by Mystery: A Casebook of Canadian Detective Fiction (1982) — Contributor — 2 copies
Flaxman Low: Psychic Detective (1993) — Author, some editions — 2 copies
Adventure [Vol. 3 No. 5, March 1912] (1912) — Contributor — 1 copy

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The Story of Baelbrow by Hesketh Prichard
A tale in the 'supernatural investigator' genre. The old manor house of Baelbrow has long been known to be haunted - but for generations, the resident spirit has never bothered anyone. But when the owners rent the place out for the summer to a visiting professor, something changes - and a maidservant ends up dead. The professor calls in Detective Flaxman Low to see what could've happened with Baelbrow's ghost.

Det. Low is awfully good at drawing a great many conclusions from a very few clues...
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The Story of Baelbrow by Hesketh Prichard
A tale in the 'supernatural investigator' genre. The old manor house of Baelbrow has long been known to be haunted - but for generations, the resident spirit has never bothered anyone. But when the owners rent the place out for the summer to a visiting professor, something changes - and a maidservant ends up dead. The professor calls in Detective Flaxman Low to see what could've happened with Baelbrow's ghost.

Det. Low is awfully good at drawing a great many conclusions from a very few clues...
… (more)
 
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AltheaAnn | 1 other review | Aug 4, 2016 |
Ghosts: being the experiences of Flaxman Low by Katharine Susannah Prichard
"... most ingenious and successful, but rather over-technically ‘occult’." In "Some Remarks on Ghost Stories" in The Bookman (December 1929)
 
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