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Farnol, Jeffery

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Jeffery FarnolSource: Wikipedia

John Jeffery Farnol (February 10, 1878 – August 9, 1952), was an English author, known for his many romantic novels, some formulaic and set in the Regency period, and swashbucklers. With Georgette Heyer, he founded the Regency romantic genre. His detective stories feature Regency thief-taker Jasper Shrig.

 

Farnol was born in Aston, Birmingham and brought up in London and Kent. He attended the Westminster Art School, after he had lost his job in a Birmingham metal-working firm. In 1900, he married Blanche Hawley, daughter of the noted New York scenic artist Hughson Hawley; they moved to the USA, where he found work as a scene painter.

 

The success of his early novels led Farnol to become a professional writer; he returned to England around 1910, and settled on the south coast. He produced around 40 novels and volumes of stories, and some non-fiction and children's books. He died after a long battle with cancer. His last book was completed by his second wife Phyllis (nee Clarke), whom he had married in 1938.

 

Several of Farnol's earlier books are available through Project Gutenberg.

 

Detective Bibliography

 

The Amateur Gentleman (1913)

Peregrine's Progress (1922)

The Loring Mystery (1925)

The High Adventure (1926)

The Quest of Youth (1927)

Another Day (1929)

The Way Beyond (1933)

The Crooked Furrow (1937)

A Matter of Business and Other Stories (1940)

Valley of Night (1942) aka Murder by Nail,

The Ninth Earl (1950)

Waif of the River (1952) {Completed by Phyllis Farnol}

 

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