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Joseph Smith Fletcher

Male : Novelist of historical novels and then detective fiction. Poet & historical writer about Yorkshire. Married Rosamond Langbridge
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Halifax, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1863 Date of Death : 1935 Age : 72

Pseudonyms : Son of the Soil

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Silcoates School
1879-1890
The Bride of Venice
(1879 W Poole, Dartford) - 19pp
Songs After Sunset
(1881 Printed by W Poole, Dartford)
The Juvenile Poems of Joseph S Fletcher
(1879 J Snowden, Dartford)
Early Poems
(1882 W Poole)
Anima Christi : In Verse
(1884 J S Fletcher, Bradford)
(1887 Washbourne. New Ed)
Deus Homo : A Poem
(1887 Washbourne)
Jesus Calls Thee : Thoughts for One in Indecision
(1887 Washbourne) - 72pp
Our Lady's Month : A Manual of Devotion for the Month of May
(1887 Washbourne) - 67pp
(Intro) Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher (1887 Walter Scott)
Frank Carisbroke's Stratagem, or Lost and Won
(1888 Jarrold)
Andrewlina : A Novel
(1889 Kegan Paul)
Mr Spivey's Clerk : A Novel
(1890 Ward & Downey)
The Winding Way : A Novel
(1890 Kegan Paul)
A Short Life of Cardinal Newman
(1890 Ward & Downey)

1891-1895
When Charles the First was King : A Novel
(1892 Bentley) - 3 vols
Through Storm and Stress : Being a History of the Remarkable Adventures
of Richard Fletcher of York
(1892 Chambers)
Old Latimer's Legacy : A Novel
(1892 Jarrold)
Poems, Chiefly against Pessimism
(1893 Ward & Downey) - 55pp
The Quarry Farm : A Country Tale
(1893 Ward & Downey)
Where Shall we Go for a Holiday ?
(1894 Waddington, York) - 32pp
The Remarkable Adventure of Walter Trelawney, Parish 'Prentice of Plymouth
in the Year of the Great Armada
(1894 Chambers)
The Wonderful Wapentake : Stories
(1895 John Lane)
Where Highways Cross
(1895 Dent) - J Ayton Symington

1896-1898
Life in Arcadia
(1896 John Lane) - Patten Wilson
At the Gate of the Fold : A Country Tale
(1896 Ward & Downey)
Mistress Spitfire : A Plain Account of certain Episodes in the History of Richard Coope, Gent
(1896 Dent)
In the Days of Drake : Being the Adventures of Humphrey Salkeld
(1896 Blackie)
God's Failures : Tales
(1897 JL, Bodley Head)
Ballads of Revolt
(1897 John Long) - 42pp
The Builders : A Tale
(1897 Methuen)
The Making of Matthias
(1898 JL, Bodley Head) - Lucy Kemp-Walsh
The Wonderful City
(1898 Nelson)
Pasquinado : Tales
(1898 Ward Lock)

1899-1900
The Death that Lurks Unseen & Other Tales
(1899 Ward Lock)
The Paths of the Prudent : A Comedy
(1899 Methuen)
From the Broad Acres : Stories Illustrative of Rural Life in Yorkshire
(1899 Grant Richards)
A Picturesque History of Yorkshire
(1899 Dent - 3 vols) (nd. 1903-4 Caxton, London - 6 vols)
Morrison's Machine : A Tale
(1900 Hutchinson)
The Harvesters : A Novel
(1900 John Long)
Roberts of Pertoria : The Story of His Life
(1900 Methuen 6d Library)
Baden-Powell of Mafeking
(1900 Methuen)

1901-1903
The Three Days' Terror : A Novel
(1901 John Long)
The Golden Spur : A Modern Romance
(1901 John Long)
History of Yorkshire
(1901)
The History of the St Leger Stakes 1776-1901
(1902 Hutchinson)
The Investigators : A Novel
(1902 John Long)
(1927 Hutchinson)
Bonds of Steel : A Novel
(1902 Digby Long)
The Airship & Other Stories
(1903 Digby, Long)
Owd Poskitt : His Opinions on Mr Chamberlain in Particluar and on English Trade in General
(1903 Harper)
The Fear of the Night : A Cluster of Stories
(1903 Routledge)
The Arcadians : A Whimsicality
(1903 John Long)
Lucian the Dreamer
(1903 Methuen)
Anthony Everton : Being the Plain Story of an Episode in the Life of Thomas Wentworth,
Earl of Stafford : A Novel
(1903 Chambers)
The Secret Way
(1903 Digby Long)

1904-1905
David March : A Novel
(1904 Methuen)
The Pigeon's Cave : A Story of Great orme's Head in 1806
(1904 Partridge)
For Those were Stirring Times & Other Stories
(1904 Everett)
The Diamonds
(1904 Digby Long)
Grand Relations : A Rustic Comedy
(1905 Fisher Unwin)
The Threshing Floor
(1905 T Fisher Unwin)

1906-1908
Highcroft Farm
(1906 Cassell) - J A Symington
A Maid and Her Money
(1906 Digby Long)
Mr Poskitt
(1907 Eveleigh Nash)
Daniel Quayne : A Morality
(1907 John Murray)
The Queen of a Day
(1907 T Fisher Unwin)
The Ivory God & Other Stories
(1907 John Murray)
The Enchanting North
(1908 Eveleigh Nash)
The Harvest Moon
(1908 Eveleigh Nash)
Paradise Court
(1908 T Fisher Unwin)
Mothers in Israel : A Study in Rustic Amenities
(1908 John Murray) (1931 Jarrolds)
A Book about Yorkshire
(1908 Methuen) - Wal Paget & Frank Southgate

1909-1910
The Adventures of Archer Dawe, Sleuth-Hound
(1909 Digby Long)
The Mantle of Ishmael
(1909 Eveleigh Nash)
The Wheatstack and Other Stories
(1909 Eveleigh Nash)
Manchester Royal
(1909 Everett)
Hardican's Hollow
(1910 Everett)
Mr Poskitt's Nightcaps : Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer
(1910 Eveleigh Nash)
Recollections of a Yorkshire Village
(1910 Digby Long)

1911-1912
Nooks and Corners of Yorkshire
(1911 Eveleigh Nash)
The Pinfold
(1911 Everett)
The Adventures of Turco Bullworthy, His Dog Shrimp and His Friend Dick Wynyard
(1912 Washbourne) - J Brewster Fisher
The Town of Crooked Ways
(1912 Eveleigh Nash 6/-)
The Fine Air of Morning : A Pastoral Romance
(1912 Eveleigh Nash)
The Golden Venture
(1912 Eveleigh Nash 2/-)
Where Highways Cross
(1912 Jarrolds. New Ed)
Memories of a Spectator
(1912 Eveleigh Nash)

1913-1915
The Bartenstein Case
(1913 John Long)
Perris of the Cherry Trees
(1913 Eveleigh Nash)
The Secret Cargo : A Story of Norwich and the Norfolk Coast
(1913 Ward Lock)
I'd Venture All for Thee : A Romance of the Yorkshire Coast
(1913 Eveleigh Nash)
The Marriage Lines
(1914 Eveleigh Nash)
Both of This Parish
(1914 Eveleigh Nash)
The Shadow of Ravenscliffe
(1914 Digby Long)
The Wolves and the Lamb
(1914 Ward Lock)
The Ransom for London
(1914 John Long)
The Furnace of Youth
(1914 Pearson)
[A New Edition of "The Builders"]
The King Versus Wargrave : A Novel
(1915 Ward Lock)
Leet Livvy : A Verse Story in the Dialect of Osgoldcross
(1915 Simpkin Marshall) - 36pp

1916-1918
The Annexation Society
(1916 Ward Lock)
Lynne Court Spinney
(1916 Ward Lock)
Families Repaired
(1916 Allen & Unwin)
Memorials of a Yorkshire Parish : An Historical Sketch of the Parish of Darrington
(1917 JL, Bodley Head) - G P Rhodes
Malvery Hold
(1917 Ward Lock)
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation
(1917 Allen & Unwin)
The Perilous Crossways
(1917 Ward Lock)
The Amaranth Club
(1918 Ward Lock)
Paul Campenhaye : Specialist in Criminology
(1918 Ward Lock)
The Making of Modern Yorkshire 1750-1914
(1918 Allen & Unwin)
Heronshawe Main : The Story of a Yorkshire Colliery
(1918 Ward Lock)
The Chestermarke Instinct
(1918 Allen & Unwin)

1919-1920
The Middle Temple Murder
(1919 Ward Lock) (1919 Knopf)
The Cistercians in Yorkshire
(1919 SPCK) - Warwick Goble
The Borough Treasurer
(1919 Ward Lock)
Leeds
(1919 SPCK)
The Valley of Head Strong Men
(1919 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Talleyrand Maxim
(1919 Ward Lock)
The Seven Days' Secret
(1919 Jarrolds)
Sheffield
(1919 SPCK)
Droonin' Watter : A Story of Berwick and the Scotch Coast
(1919 Allen & Unwin)
Scarhaven Keep
(1920 Ward Lock)
The Herapath Property
(1920 Ward Lock)
Exterior to the Evidence
(1920 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Lost Mr Linthwaite
(1920 Hodder & Stoughton)
Harrogate and Knaresborough
(1920 SPCK)
The Orange-Yellow Diamond
(1920 Newnes)
Pontefract
(1920 SPCK)

1921-1922
Yorkshiremen of the Restoration
(1921 Allen & Unwin)
The Root of All Evil
(1921 Hodder & Stoughton)
[Filmed in 1948]
Wrychester Paradise
(1921 Ward Lock)
The Chestermarke Instinct
(1921 Knopf NY)
The Heaven Kissed Hill
(1922 Hodder & Stoughton)
In the Mayor's Parlour
(1922 John Lane)
Ravensdene Court
(1922 Ward Lock)
The Middle of Things
(1922 Ward Lock)
The Markenmore Mystery
(1922 Herbert Jenkins)

1923
The Ambitious Lady
(1923 Ward Lock)
The Million Dollar Diamond
(1923 Herbert Jenkins)
Many Engagements
(1923 John Long)
Halifax
(1923 SPCK)
The Mazaroff Murder
(1923 Herbert Jenkins)
The Copper Box
(1923 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Charing Cross Mystery
(1923 Herbert Jenkins) (1923 Putnam NY)

1924-1925
The Cartwright Gardens Murder
(1924 Collins)
The Kang-He Vase
(1924 Collins)
The Secret of the Barbican and Other Stories
(1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Mysterious Chinaman
(1924 Herbert Jenkins)
The Safety Pin
(1924 Herbert Jenkins)
False Scent
(1924 Herbert Jenkins)
The Life & Work of St Wilfrid of Ripon, Apostle of Sussex : A Lecture
(1925 E H Thompson, Chichester) - 63pp
The Mill of Many Windows
(1925 Collins)
Sea Fog
(1925 Herbert Jenkins)
The Bedford Row Mystery
(1925 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Great Brighton Mystery
(1925 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Reformation in Northern England : Six Lectures
(1925 Allen & Unwin)

1926-1928
The Cartwright Gardens Murder
(1926 Collins)
The Stolen Budget
(1926 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Massingham Butterfly and Other stories
(1926 Herbert Jenkins)
The Mortover Grange Mystery
(1926 Herbert Jenkins)
Green Ink and Other Stories
(1926 Herbert Jenkins)
The Green Rope
(1927 Herbert Jenkins)
The Passenger to Folkestone
(1927 Herbert Jenkins)
The Murder in the Pallant
(1927 Herbert Jenkins)
Cobweb Castle
(1928 Herbert Jenkins)
Behind the Monocle and Other Stories
(1928 Jarrolds)
The Double Chance
(1928 Nash & Grayson)
The Wild Oat )1028 Jarrold)
The Contents of the Coffin
(1928 London Book Co)

1929-1930
The Ransom for London
(1929 Dial, NY)
The Time Worn Town
(1929 Collins)
The Wrist Mark
(1929 Herbert Jenkins)
The Ravenswood Mystery & Other Stories
(1929 Collins)
The Matheson Formula
(1930 Herbert Jenkins) (1929 Knopf)
The House in Tuesday Market
(1930 Herbert Jenkins)
The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery
(1930 Herbert Jenkins) (1930 Knopf)
The Marrendon Mystery & Other Stories of Crime and Detection
(1930 Collins)
The Dressing Room Murder
(1930 Herbert Jenkins) (1931 Knopf)
The Malachite Jar & Other Stories
(1930 Collins)
The South Foreland Murder
(1930 Herbert Jenkins)

1931-1932
Collected Verse 1881-1931
(1931 Harrap)
Dead Men's Money
(1931 Harrap)
Verses Written in Early Youth
(1931 PP, London & Woking) - 62 copies. 76pp
The Box Hill Murder
(1931 Herbert Jenkins)
Murder in Four Degrees
(1931 Harrap)
The Murder at Wrides Park
(1931 Harrap) (1931 Knopf)
Verses Written in Early Youth
(1931 PP) - 12 large paper
The Murder of the Ninth Baronet
(1932 Harrap)
The Man in the Fur Coat & Other Stories
(1932 Collins)
The Solution of a Mystery : Documents relative to the Murder of Roger Maidment
(1932 Doubleday Doran NY) (1932 Harrap)
The Burma Ruby
(1932 Benn 9d Novels)
The Man in No. 3 & Other Stories
(1932 Collins)
Murder in the Squire's Pew
(1932 Harrap) (1932 US)
The Borgia Cabinet
(1932 Herbert Jenkins)

After 1933
Find the Woman : Short Stories
(1933 Collins)
Murder of the Only Witness
(1933 Harrap)
The Murder in Medora Mansions & Other Stories of Crime and Mystery
(1933 Collins)
The Grocer's Wife
(1933 Hutchinson)
Who Killed Alfred Snowe ? Being Entry No. 5 in the Case Book of Ronald Camberwell
(1933 Harrap)
The Mystery of the London Banker
(1933 Harrap)
The Ebony Box
(1934 Thornton Butterworth) (1934 Knopf)
Murder of the Secret Agent : Being Entry No. 8 in the Case-Book of Ronald Camberwell
(1934 Harrap)
The Eleventh Hour : Being the 2nd of the Further Adventures of Ronald Camberwell
(1935 Thornton Butterworth)
The Carrismore Ruby & Other Stories
(1935 Jarrolds)
Todmanhawe Grange : By J S Fletcher & Concluded by Torquemada
(1937 Thornton Butterworth)

READING
James Walter Smith : J S Fletcher in His Books and in His Life
(1928 PP, London & Woking) - 29pp

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