Frank L. Packard (1877–1942)
Author of The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
About the Author
Image credit: Frank L. Packard (Canadian novelist) (note that many of the images of FLP are actually the American architect...)
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Works by Frank L. Packard
The Locked Book 9 copies
The Big Shot 5 copies
Shanghai Jim 4 copies
The Gray Seal 3 copies
101 Great Thriller Short Stories 2 copies
The Dragon's Jaws 2 copies
Femettan 1 copy
Mammoth Jimmie Dale 1 copy
More Knaves than one 1 copy
Punane kuul 1 copy
Broken waters 1 copy
Associated Works
Great Railroad Stories of the World — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Packard, Frank Lucius
- Birthdate
- 1877-02-02
- Date of death
- 1942-02-17
- Burial location
- Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Place of death
- Lachine, Quebec, Canada
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Short biography
- He was born to American parents in Montreal, Quebec and lived both in the U.S. and Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1897 and went to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a civil engineer. He started writing at the turn of the 20th Century and sold his first work in 1902. His writing met with public approval and he moved to New York City and began writing full time a few years later. His initial work was short story railroad fiction. He married in 1910 and he and his bride took a year long tour of the U.S. and Canada both as a honeymoon and as a search for material for his writing. In addition to short story railroad fiction Packard wrote crime fiction and his best known series in this genre is the collection of Jimmy Dale mysteries.
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