| Scarhaven Keep, 1922 By: J. S. Fletcher (World's Classics) Contributor(s): Fletcher, J. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1532721021 ISBN-13: 9781532721021 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 8" W x 10" (0.58 lbs) 126 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1860 - 30 January 1933) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the "Golden Age Fletcher was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the son of a clergyman. His father died when he was eight months old, and after which his grandmother raised him on a farm in Darrington, near Pontefract. He was educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield, and after some study of law, he became a journalis At age 20, Fletcher began working in journalism, as a sub-editor in London. He subsequently returned to his native Yorkshire, where he worked first on the Leeds Mercury using the pseudonym A Son of the Soil, and then as a special correspondent for the Yorkshire Post covering Edward VII's coronation in 1902. |