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The Hidden Door

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Title:The Hidden Door
Author:
Packard, Frank Lucius   
(5 of 12 for author by title)
Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder (Jimmie Dale #4)
The Four Stragglers
Published:   1933
Publisher:Copp, Clark Company Ltd
Tags:adventure, Canadiana, fiction, mystery
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To Colin Hewitt, criminologist, great writer of detective stories, his old friend brought a strange tale and a stranger request--a request with the sinister shadow of death behind it. It was that tale which led Colin into more sinister waters than he had ever known before, into a world where treachery and sudden death were commonplaces, to a climax that all but cost him his life.--From the book. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Packard, Frank Lucius

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Frank Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist. Born in Montreal he was one of the first Canadian writers to gain the attention of an international readership. He was trained as a civil engineer and worked in the US and Canada for several railroads. He used his railroad experience in some of his early novels and short stories. He achieved great success with his second novel "The Miracle Man" in 1914. In 1917 he published another best-seller, a detective novel called "The Adventures of Jimmy Dale" which he turned into a series of four more novels. In order to add realism to his books he joined police raids and drifted around the streets of New York which allowed him to add an air of authenticity for his stories. By 1942, the Jimmy Dale series had sold three million copies, was adapted for a silent movie and was turned into a CBC radio play. Packard travelled to the South Seas in 1912 and he used the setting for some of his novels such as "The Gold Skull Murders" and "Two Stolen Idols". Packard's prolific work shows attention to local detail that adds colour to books that otherwise verged on the formulaic. (Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature)

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