Frank L. Packard

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist.

Life

Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liege. 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 many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale.

Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.

Works

Jimmie Dale series

• The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) – (Wikisource text)
• The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) – (Wikisource text)
• Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (1922)
• Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder (1930)
• Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour (1935)
• Return of the Grey Seal (2007) – (e-book compilation of first two books)

Other works

• On the Iron at Big Cloud (1911) (Wikisource text)
• Greater Love Hath No Man (1913) (Wikisource text)
• The Miracle Man (1914) – (Wikisource text)
• The Belovéd Traitor (1915) – (Project Gutenberg book)
• The Sin That Was His (1917)
• The Wire Devils (1918)
• Coogan's Last Run. (Novella) Published in Top-Notch magazine, Feb. 1918; a slightly expanded version of the short story "The Guardian of the Devil's Slide," which is included in On The Iron at Big Cloud (1911).)
• From Now On (1919)
• The Night Operator (1919)
• The White Moll (1920) – (Wikisource text)
• 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)
• More Knaves Than One (1938) (Includes: More Knaves Than One, The King of Fools, Behind The Masks, and The Devil Sits In.)