Author:Jennette Lee

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Jennette Lee
(1860–1951)

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American novelist and writer of short stories and sketches in different genres, including detective fiction.

Works

Kate Wetherell: An Earth Comedy (1900)
A Pillar of Salt (1901)
The Son of a Fiddler (1902)
Uncle William; The Man Who was Shif'less Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele (1906)
The Ibsen Secret; a key to the prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen (1907) essays IA
Simeon Tetlow's Shadow (1909) PG
Happy Island: A new "Uncle William" story (1910) (start transcription)
Mr. Achilles (1912) (start transcription)
The Taste of Apples (1913) (start transcription)
The Woman in the Alcove (1914) (start transcription)
Aunt Jane (1915) IA : PG
Unfinished Portraits: Stories of Musicians and Artists (1916) non-fiction PG
The Air-Man and the Tramp (1918)
The Rain-Coat Girl (1919) IA
The Chinese Coat (1920) (start transcription)

Millicent Newberry detective series

The Green Jacket (1917) librivox
The Mysterious Office (1922)
Dead Right (1925)

Works from periodicals

The Day Shall Declare It (1902 June, Scribner's Magazine) (ss)
"A Town Guest" (1903 Oct, Harper's Monthly Magazine) (ss)
A House of Mercy (1903 Dec, Scribner's Magazine) (ss)
"A Thread of Scarlet" (1904 July, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine) (ss)
"The Scientist and the Moth" (ss) The Century Magazine, Jan 1905
On the Face of the Waters (1906 Mar 31, Collier's) (ss)
Wings (1906 March, Lippincott's Magazine) (ss)
The Middle Distance (1906 May, Lippincott's Magazine) (ss)
"A Little Dunker" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Aug 1906
"Achilles Goes to Chicago," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Dec 1906 (included in in modified form in Mr. Achilles)
"A Failure" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Jun 1907
"Achilles Calls on Betty Harris," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Nov 1907 (included in modified form in Mr. Achilles)
"John Fairchild's Mirror" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Dec 1907
"A Girl of the Gray Sea" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Jul 1908
"A Town Guest" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Oct 1903
"The Return of Eric Bancroft" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Nov 1908
"The Lady With Wings" (1909 Mar 27, Collier's) (ss)
"The Housetop Room" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, May 1910
"The Serenade" (ss) The Century Magazine, Nov 1914
"Under the Red Maple" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Apr 1917
"At the End of the Rainbow" (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Aug 1915
"Billy Boy" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Mar 1916
"Miss Cynthia's Rosebush" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Jul 1918
"The Day the Clock Was Set Ahead" (1919 March, McCall's Magazine) (ss)
The Cat and the King (1919 Oct, Ladies' Home Journal) (ss)
"The Man Who Made Poetry Hum" (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Jul 1922
The Freedom of John Peabody (1928 Mar 3, The Scholastic) (ss)

Longer works

"Uncle William (novelette)," (1905 Dec 9, Collier's)
One Way of Love (1906 Feb, Lippincott's Magazine) (novella)
"Simeon Tetlow's Shadow" (1908 March, The Smart Set) (novel)
Conscience Money (1923 Oct, The Quiver) (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 1951, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 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.

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