JS Fletcher

JS Fletcher , actually Joseph Smith Fletcher (born February 7, 1863 in Halifax , West Yorkshire , † January 30, 1935 ) was an English journalist and writer.

Life

Fletcher was a pastor's son. Fletcher died when Fletcher was not yet a year old. He spent his childhood and youth on his grandparents' farm in Darrington near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. He completed his school years at the Silcoates School in Wakefield and then studied law .

After graduating, he got a job with the Yorkshire Post . As a journalist, he was interested in the everyday life of the “little people” in his homeland. During this time he married the Irish writer Rosamond Langbridge (1880–1964) and had a son with her.

Fletcher was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

reception

Fletscher is considered a prolific writer . In addition to his purely journalistic work, he has written more than 200 books on a wide variety of topics. He made his successful debut as a writer with an anthology of poems in which he dealt with his homeland.

In addition to historical and economic considerations of his near and far homeland, Fletcher also published over 100 detective novels . In 1914 he made his debut with one of these; his most successful were a series of adventures by the private detective "Ronald Camberwell".

Works (selection)

Detective novels

• The amaranth club. Spy novel ("The Amaranth Club", 1918). Maschler publishing house, Berlin 1930.
• The Kavaliers-GmbH. Detective novel ("The Annexation Society", 1921). Goldmann, Munich 1954.
• The city treasurer. Detective novel ("The borrough treasurer", 1921). Upward publishing house, Berlin 1930.
• The eerie broadcast (“The secret cargo”, 1213). Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1929.
• Crimes in Mannersley ("The double chance", 1928). Goldmann, Munich 1954.
• The Spanish blade. Detective novel ("The dressing room murder", 1931). Verlag die Buchgemeinde, Berlin 1932.
• Struggle for inheritance. Detective novel ("The Herapath property", 1921). Delta-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
• The secret of Gemma Graffi ("The King versus Wargrave"). Maschler publishing house, Berlin 1930.
• Nightmare ("Lynne Court Spinney"). Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
• Strangers from overseas. Detective novel ("The middle of things"). Upward publishing house, Berlin 1932.
• The secret of Mr. Marbury. Detective novel ("The Middle Temple Murder"). Aufwärts-Verlag, Berlin 1930. The Middle-Temple-Mord , Tally-Ho !, Berlin 2013. ISBN 9783942316033
• Ransom for London ("Ransom for London"). Universitas Publishing House, London 1930.
• The castle in the cliffs. Detective novel ("Scarhaven Keep") Delta-Verlag, Berlin 1932.
• To a will ("The Talleyrand Maxim"). Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1931.
• The wolves and the lamb ("The wolves and the Lamb"). Verlag Oestergaard, Berlin 1935 (former title Die Diamanten der Kaiserin ).
• The double track. Detective novel ("Wrychester Paradise"). Goldmann, Munich 1931.
• The missing chronicle. Detective novel ("Who killed Alfred Snowe?"). Goldmann, Munich 1953 (former title Der Antiquar ).
• Shadows over Nicholas. Detective novel ("Murder at Wrides Park"). Goldmann, Munich 1953.
• The house at the Tuesday market. Detective novel ("The house of Tuesday Market"). Goldmann, Munich 1953.
• The only witness. Detective novel ("Murder of the only witness"). Goldmann, Munich 1952.
• The house the open beach. Detective novel ("The murder in the Pallant"). Liebel Verlag, Nuremberg 1952.
• The tea house in Mentone. Detective novel ("Murder in four degrees"). Goldmann, Munich 1952.
• The fateful bridge. Detective novel ("Murder of the nineth Baronet"). Goldmann, Munich 1952.
• The man on the gallows. Detective novel ("The Kang-He Vase"). Liebel Verlag, Nuremberg 1953.
• The crime on the night train. Detective novel ("The Charing Cross Mystery"). Liebel Verlag, Nuremberg 1952.
• The missing one. Detective novel ("Malvery Hold"). Goldmann, Leipzig 1933.

prose

• Irene wants to make a career. A novel from theater life (“An ambitious lady”). Maschler publishing house, Berlin 1930.
• The graves of the Netherfields ("Ravensdane Court"). Payne Verlag, Leipzig 1938.

history

• In the days of Drake . Bentley, London 1899.
• When Charles the First was King . Bentley, London 1892.
• The history of the St. Leger Stakes (1776-1926) . Hutchinson, London 1926.

literature

• Hugh Greene : Introduction. In the S. (Ed.): Further rivals of Sherlock Holmes. The crooked counties . New edition Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1976, ISBN 0-14-003891-4 .

Web links

• Sarah Freeman: How fame eluded a man of many words . In: Yorkshire Post, May 8, 2006.
• Works by JS Fletcher in the Gutenberg-DE project