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Frank L Packard
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Frank L. Packard is best known for creating the detective series starring Jimmie Dale. Packard’s work is considered a bridging style that showed the contrast between the late-Victorian style and…
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Frank L. Packard
The further adventures of Jimmie Dale is an Interesting tale of a young man who broke into safes at night to rob people and return their money to them. He…
The author of the Jimmie Dale adventures is Frank L. Packard. It began as an intriguing tale of a young man who would break into safes at night to retaliate…
"Doors of the Night" is a novel written by Frank L. Packard, first published in 1922. The book is a thrilling mystery story that follows the adventures of Jimmie Dale…
"The Sin That Was His" by Frank L. Packard is a short story set in the Yukon during the gold rush era. The story follows the arrival of Arthur Leroy…
"From Now On" is a novel written by Frank L. Packard written before 1927. The book is a gripping mystery story that follows the adventures of Jimmie Dale, a wealthy…
FROM the vivid drama of its opening scene to the tense unfolding on its final page this finely fashioned mystery-adventure holds the reader in its sway. Why did men kill…
This is the story of four Allied soldiers who found themselves lost behind the enemy lines. Later it is revealed that three of them are running high-class criminal organisations running…
This is a thrilling mystery novel featuring Jimmie Dale, aka 'The Grey Seal, ' a gentleman thief and master of disguise. In this sequel to The Adventures of Jimmie Dale…
Excerpt: …turned then, pulled the whistle lever down, tied it down
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books…
"On the Iron at Big Cloud" is a collection of short stories written by Frank L. Packard that offers a fascinating glimpse into life in a mountain division railroad town…
Things don't look good for Billy Kane when his millionaire employer David Ellsworth is found murdered and robbed. All evidences suggest that he is the one who did it, and…
When Keith and Allan Wharton set out for fresh water on the remote South Pacific island in their trading schooner, Malola, they had no idea that they were about to…
The scenes of this thrilling story vary from Havre and Paris, to the romantic islands of Polynesia, where the last threads of the plots are finally untangled. John Crane, a…
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a…
A wealthy American youth, through various twists of fate, ends up leading a band of wandering vagrants.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is…
Here is the first volume of the exciting stories of the pulp hero Father of all Masked Crimefighters from the Shadow to Batman to the Lone Ranger – Jimmy Dale!
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.
Excerpt: …and cadaverous of feature, and miserably thin of shoulder, and blood trickled over his forehead and down one ashen, hollow cheek
Excerpt: "There is a Valley called the Valley of Illusion, but beyond it, sun-crowned, is the Peak of Eternal Truth--and the Way from the Valley to the Peak is sore…
I guess youse are de kind, he said, with a grim smile, dat ain’t had to kill yerself worryin’ much about any kind of trouble, an’ it ain’t nothin’ to…
Bad! Hawkeye brought his elbow sharply around to focus his lamp on the coin; then he leaned over and rang it on the window sill – only it wouldn’t ring…
It was like some shadowy pantomime: The dark mouth of an alleyway thrown into murky relief by the rays of a distant street lamp…the swift, forward leap of a skulking…
The Wire Devils follows a criminal gang of the same name who hijack a railroad’s telegraph lines to glean information about profitable shipments. Combining elements from dime-store novels and Frank…
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A diminutive gas-jet’s sickly, yellow flame illuminated the room with poverty-stricken inadequacy; high up on the wall, bordering the ceiling, the moonlight, as though contemptuous of its artificial competitor, streamed…
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University…
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten veroeffentlicht als "On the Iron at Big Cloud " . Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine deutschsprachigen Leser ins Deutsche uebersetzt. Bei…
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a des decennies sous le titre "On the Iron at Big Cloud " . Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat…
"Pawned" is a thrilling crime novel written by Frank L. Packard written before 1913. The story follows the character Jimmie Dale, a wealthy socialite by day and a master thief…
Jimmie Dale was the most brilliant of all thieves, a member of society by day, at night a celebrated cat burglar, The Grey Seal. But he was only a pawn…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing…
First published in 1919. Packard was a Canadian novelist best-known for his series of mystery novels featuring a character named Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day who dons a…
