Books with author Frank Packard

This carefully crafted ebook: "Doors of the Night (Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Things don't look good for Billy Kane when his millionaire employer David Ellsworth is found murdered and robbed. All evidences suggest that he is the one who did it, and those circumstances dictate that he must go in hiding. As Billy wonders further in New York's criminal underground, he gets mistaken for a notorious Buddy Morgan, known as The Rat, one of the bosses of the underworld. Seizing on the unlikely opportunity to clear his name Billy decides to pit the underworld in a fight on the side of justice against the police.Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist best known for his Jimmie Dale mystery series. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of railroad stories and novels. Packard also wrote number of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day and a fearless crime fighter by night. Jimmie Dale novels brought the idea of a costume and mask for hero's secret identity, and also established the concept of a hero's secret hideout or lair.

A book about railroad life on tbe Rocky Mountain division of a big transcontinental line, where exciting and unusual events happen and common men may, in an instant's time, turn into heroes. Before the author made writing his profession he spent four years in the engineering department of the road when it "dug, blasted, burrowed, and trestled its right of way through the mountains," and thus got his inspiration at first hand.

Two switch lights twinkled; one at the east, and one at the west end of the siding. For the rest all was blackness. Half way between the switch lights, snuggled close against the single-tracked main line, the station, little more than a shanty and too insignificant to boast a night operator, loomed up shadowy and indistinct. Away to the westward, like jagged points sticking up into the night and standing out in relief against the skyline, the Rockies reared their peaks. And the spell of the brooding mountains seemed to lie over all the desolate, butte-broken surrounding country -- for all was utter silence.

"The Four Stragglers" opens in the darkness of an unnamed battlefield during the Great War. Cut off from their respective units, three soldiers take refuge in a thicket; a fourth lies dead or unconscious a few metres away. Flares flying above reveal faces, and the cognizant come to recognize that they'd all played parts in a daring jewel heist not two years earlier.

• Two classic crime fiction novels by Frank L Packard are in this Kindle eBook: The Wire Devils and The Adventures of Jimmie DaleThe Wire Devils (1918)An amusing crime caper in which a criminal tails another criminal who follow a band of criminals, decipher's their communications code and attempts to foil their plots.The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917)Playboy Jimmie Dale isn't satisfied with his wealthy lifestyle so he masquerades as "The Grey Seal," a safe cracker. He is caught in the act by a woman but she doesn't call the police. Instead she blackmails him to use his criminal talents in a very different manner.About The AuthorCanadian mystery writer Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) was born in Montreal and worked as an engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences resulted in a series of mystery novels featuring a character called "Jimmie Dale". Packard died in 1942 in Quebec.Books by Frank L Packard Include:The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919)Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (1922)Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder (1930)Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour (1935)Other worksCoogan's Last RunMore Knaves Than One (1910)The Miracle Man (1914) The Belovéd Traitor (1915) The Sin That Was His (1917)The Wire Devils (1918)From Now On (1919)The Night Operator (1919)The White Moll (1920) Pawned (1921)Doors of the Night (1922)The Four Stragglers (1923)The Locked Book (1924)Running Special (1925)Broken Waters (1925)The Red Ledger (1926)The Devil's Mantle (1927)Two Stolen Idols (1927)Shanghai Jim (1928)The Big Shot (1929)Tiger Claws (1929)Gold Skull Murders (1931)The Hidden Door (1933)The Purple Ball (1933)The Dragon's Jaws (1937)

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