Robert Barr (1850-1912) was born in Glasgow, Scotland and taken to Canada when he was four. He grew up in Toronto and became a reporter in Detroit. In 1881 he moved to England and became an editor. He established The Idler with Jerome K Jerome in 1892, and wrote many short stories. He used the Luke Sharp pseudonym for parodying Sherlock Holmes under the name 'Sherlow Kombs'. His best-known mystery stories feature the French adventurer Eugene Valmont.
Bibliography
The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (collected 1906)
- The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower
- The Clue of the Silver Spoons (1904)
- Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune
- The Ghost with the Club-Foot
- The Liberation of Wyoming Ed
Selected Stories
- The Typewritten Letter (1898)
- The Pasha's Prisoner (1901)
- The Cousin from Canada (1906)
Books
Strange Happenings (1883)
From Whose Bourne (1893)
In the Midst of Alarms (1894)
The Face & The Mask (1894)
Revenge! (1896)
Jennie Baxter, Journalist (1899)
The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont (1906)
Lord Stranleigh : Philanthropist (1911)
The Unchanging East
The Sword Maker : A Romance Of Love And Adventure
The Girl in the Case (1910)
Tales of Two Continents (1920)
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