Author:Joseph Smith Fletcher

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Joseph Smith Fletcher
(1863–1935)
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English journalist and author who wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and one of the most prolific writers of detective fiction. Also remembered for his historical fiction, especially the novel When Charles The First Was King. Pen name J. S. Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Works

  • The Bride of Venice (1879)
  • Where Highways Cross (1895) illustrated by James Ayton Symington
  • Anima Christi (1884) poetry IA
  • Frank Carisbrooke's Stratagem (1889)
  • Andrewlina (1889)
  • The Winding Way (1890)
  • Mr. Spivey's Clerk (1890)
  • Old Lattimer's Legacy (1892)
  • When Charles the First Was King (1892) Vol 1of3 IA Vol 2of3 IA Vol 3of3 IA
  • Through Storm and Stress (1892)
  • The Quarry Farm (1893)
  • The Remarkable Adventure of Walter Trelawney, parish 'prentice of Plymouth in the year of the Great Armada (1893)
  • Where shall we go for a Holiday?. (1894)
  • The Wonderful City (1894)
  • At the Gate of the Fold (1896)
  • The Builders (1897)
  • God's Failures (1897) IA
  • In The Days of Drake (1897) IA PG
  • Mistress Spitfire (1897) IA PG
  • At the Blue Bell Inn (1898)
  • Pasquinado (1898)
  • From the Broad Acres (1899)
  • The Paths of the Prudent (1899) IA
  • The Harvesters (1900)
  • Morrison's Machine (1900)
  • The Golden Spur (1901)
  • The Three Days' Terror (1901)
  • History of the St. Leger Stakes (1902)
  • The Investigators (1902)
  • The Air-Ship (1903)
  • The Fear of the Night (1903)
  • The Secret Way (1903)
  • Lucian the Dreamer (1903) IA
  • The Diamonds (US: The Diamond Murders) (1904)
  • For Those Were Stirring Times! and Other Stories (1904)
  • The Ivory God (1905)
  • The Threshing Floor (1905)
  • The Harringtons of Highcroft Farm (1907) IA
  • Mr Poskitt (1907)
  • The Queen of a Day (1907)
  • The Harvest Moon (1908)
  • Mothers in Israel (1908) IA
  • Paradise Court (1908)
  • The Adventures of Archer Dawe (aka: The Contents of the Coffin) (1909)
  • Manchester Royal (1909)
  • The Mantle of Ishmael (1909)
  • The Other Sense (1909)
  • The Wheatstack (1909)
  • Hardican's Hollow (1910)
  • Mr Poskitt's Nightcaps: Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer (1910) PG
  • The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand (1911)
  • The Adventures of Turco Bullworthy (1912)
  • The Golden Venture (1912)
  • The New Sun (1913)
  • Perris of the Cherry Trees (1913)
  • The Secret Cargo (1913)
  • The Bartenstein Case (1913)
  • Paul Campenhaye, Specialist in Criminology (US: The Clue Of The Artificial Eye) (1914)
  • Both of this Parish (1914)
  • The Marriage Lines (1914)
  • The Ransom for London (1914)
  • The Shadow of Ravenscliffe (1914)
  • The Wolves and the Lamb (1914)
  • The King Versus Wargrave (1915)
  • The Annexation Society (1916)
  • Families Repaired (1916)
  • The Lynne Court Spinney (US: The Mystery of Lynne Court) (aka: And Sudden Death) (aka: The Pedigreed Murder Case) (1916)
  • Malvery Hold (US: The Mystery of the Hushing Pool) (1917)
  • The Perilous Crossways (1917)
  • The Amaranth Club (1918)
  • The Middle Temple Murder (1919)
  • The Cistercians in Yorkshire (1919) IA
  • Droonin' Watter (US: Dead Men's Money) (1919)
  • Leet Livvy (1919) Poetry in Dialect IA
  • The Judge Corroborates (1919)
  • The Seven Days' Secret (1919)
  • The Talleyrand Maxim (1919)
  • The Valley of Headstrong Men (1919)
  • Dead Men's Money (1920)
  • Exterior to the Evidence (1920)
  • The Wrychester Paradise (US: The Paradise Mystery) (1920) (transcription project)
  • The Orange-Yellow Diamond (1921)
  • The Borough Treasurer (1921)
  • The Chestermarke Instinct (1921)
  • The Herapath Property (1921) IA PG
  • The Root of All Evil (1921) PG
  • The Heaven-Kissed Hill (1922)
  • Ravensdene Court (1922)
  • In the Mayor's Parlour (a.k.a. Behind The Panel) (1922) (external scan) PG
  • The Middle of Things (1922)
  • The Lost Mr. Linthwaite (1923)
  • The Markenmore Mystery (1923)
  • The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation (1922)
  • Scarhaven Keep (1922)
  • The Charing Cross Mystery (1923) (serialized in 1922 as "Black Money")
  • The Mazaroff Murder (1923)
  • The Copper Box (1923)
  • Rippling Ruby (1923) (transcription project)
  • The Safety Pin (1924) (transcription project)
  • The Kang-He Vase (1924) (serialized in The Blue Book Magazine 1924, as "The Gallowstree Mystery")
  • The Amaranth Club (1926)
  • The Mortover Grange Affair (1927)
  • The Green Rope (1927)
  • The Black House in Harley Street (1928)
  • Cobweb Castle (1928)

Non-fiction

  • History Of Yorkshire (1898)
  • The Enchanting North (1908) IA
  • Memorials of a Yorkshire Parish (1917) IA
  • The Making of Modern Yorkshire, 1750-1914 (1918) IA
  • The Cistercians in Yorkshire (1919) IA
  • Harrogate and Knaresborough (1920) IA
  • Yorkshiremen of the Restoration (1921) IA

Works from magazines

Longer works

About Fletcher

  • "The Mystery of J. S. Fletcher" by Alfred C. Ward (The Bookman, Feb 1925)
  • "J. S. Fletcher" by J. P. Collins

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 1935, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 89 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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