Scarhaven Keep - Softcover

Fletcher, J.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500200344 ISBN 13: 9781500200343

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

J.S. Fletcher was a British author who wrote over 200 books. Fletcher wrote on many subjects but his most famous work was detective fiction as he was considered one of the best in the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction”.

About this title

About the Author:

J.S. Fletcher English writer Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 –1933) wrote more than 200 books on a variety of subjects, fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the "Golden Age". He was born in West Yorkshire and raised by his grandmother on a farm. He studied law but became a journalist working as a London-based sub-editor. He later worked for the Leeds Mercury and Yorkshire Post covering Edward VII's coronation in 1902. He wrote numerous historical novels, many dealing with Yorkshire and was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Fletcher wrote several novels of rural life beginning with The Wonderful Wapentake (1894). Michael Sadleir stated that Fletcher's historical novel, When Charles I Was King (1892), was his best work. In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and went on to write more than 100 others, many featuring private investigator Ronald Camberwell.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500200344
• ISBN 13: 9781500200343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148