Author:Louis Joseph Vance

Louis Joseph Vance
(1879–1933)

American author; known as the creator of the character "The Lone Wolf," who featured in eight books and numerous films, and radio and television series. Pseudonyms: W. Beall Baldwin, George Parsons Bradford & J. Colville-Johnston

Louis Joseph Vance

Works

Lone Wolf series

  • The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama (1914)* stills from the film (transcription project)
  • The False Faces (1918)* frontispiece Clarence Rowe
  • Red Masquerade: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter (1921)* frontispiece Douglas Duer Project Gutenberg (external scan) (Hathitrust)
  • Alias the Lone Wolf (1921)* Project Gutenberg
  • The Lone Wolf Returns (1923)
  • The Lone Wolf's Son (1931)
  • Encore the Lone Wolf (1933)
  • The Lone Wolf's Last Prowl (1934)

Terence O'Rourke

Others

Stories from periodicals

  • "The Cap-Box" in Munsey's Magazine, Aug 1904
  • "In the House of Yesteryear" (1906 July, Smith's Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Night" (1907, Appleton's)
  • "At the Eleventh Hour" (1907 Aug, The Smart Set) (ss)
  • "The Spider" in Munsey's Magazine, Sep 1904
  • "The Scapegoat" in Munsey's Magazine, Jun 1905
  • "Vallombrosa Terrace" in Munsey's Magazine, Jul 1907
  • "The Mad Dogs and the Minnow" (With Frank E. Verney) (ss) (1925 May 16, The Saturday Evening Post)
  • "Queer Street" (1926 May, The Shrine) (ss)
Longer works and series
  • Faraday Bobbs, Free Lance (1906, The Popular Magazine) series
    • "An Emperor Unawares" (1906 May)
  • O'Rourke, the Adventurer (1907, The Popular Magazine) series
    • "The Gaunt Serang" (1906 May)
  • Shadow Reef (1908-09, The Popular Magazine) 2-part serial
    • Part 1 (1908 Dec)
    • Part 2 (1909 Jan)
  • Stories of Wall Street (series)
  • "First Person Plural" (1922, McCall's Magazine) (novelette)
  • "The Dead Ride Hard" (1926 July to October, McCall's Magazine) (serial)

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 1933, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 91 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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