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Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue
Frank Lucius Packard
出版
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
, 2015-12-02
主題
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1519605382
9781519605382
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vf8UjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called "Jimmie Dale"; who first appeared in the novel The Adventures of Jimmie Dale in 1917. He was a wealthy playboy by day, but at night put on a costume and became The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a grey seal behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything. Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.