Author:Hulbert Footner

Hulbert Footner
(1879–1944)

Canadian writer of non-fiction and fiction; best remembered for his detective fiction, including the Madame Storey and Amos Leo Mappin series. Many of his works were adapted into films.

Works

Non-fiction

  • Two for the Trail (1911)
  • New Rivers of the North (1912)

Fiction

  • Two on the Trail (1911)
  • Jack Chanty (1913)
  • The Sealed Valley (1914)
  • The Huntress (1917)
  • The Fugitive Sleuth (1918)
  • Thieves' Wit (1918)
  • The Substitute Millionaire (1919)
  • The Fur Bringers (1920)
  • The Woman from Outside (US, 1921)
    • as On Swan River (UK, 1919)
  • The Owl Taxi (1921)
  • The Deaves Affair (1922)
  • Ramshackle House 1922
  • Officer! 1924
  • The Chase of the 'Linda Belle' 1925
  • The Shanty Sled (1926)
  • Cap'n Sue (1928)
  • Queen of Clubs (1928)
  • A Self-Made Thief (US) (1929)
    • as The Murderer's Challenge (UK)
  • Anybody's Pearls 1930

Madame Storey series

Stories previously published in Argosy Allstory, 1922–35
  1. The Under Dogs (1925)
  2. Madame Storey (1926)
  3. The Velvet Hand (1928)
  4. The Doctor Who Held Hands (1929)
  5. Easy to Kill (1931)
  6. The Casual Murderer (UK, 1932; US, 1937)

Works from periodicals

Longer works
  • "Wild Bird" (1923 Feb–June, Munsey's Magazine) 5-part serial
  • "The Three Thirty-Twos" (1925 Nov 7, Argosy All-Story Weekly) [Madame Storey] novelette

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse