Headon hill biography sample

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Author: Headon Hill

Author: Headon Hill (1857–1927)

Alternate Name(s): (pseudonym); Francis Edward Grainger (legal name)

Biography: Author of popular adventure, gumshoe, and spy stories. See document in Sutherland.

References: Sutherland

Fiction Titles:

Clues disseminate a Detective's Camera. 1 vol. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1893.
Cabinet Pictures. 1 vol. London: George Newnes, 1893.
Zambra the Detective: Some Clue from his Notebook. 1 vol. London: Chatto and Windus, 1894.
The Rajah's Specially Wife. 1 vol. London: Ward and Impediment, 1894.
The Divinations of Kala Persad and Other Stories. 1 vol. London: Go by and Lock, 1895.
His Egyptian Wife: An Anglo-Egyptian Romance. 1 vol. London: Digby, Long, 1895.
Guilty Gold: A Saga of Financial Fraud and Area Crime. 1 vol. London: C.

Arthur Pearson, 1896.
The Queen of Night. 1 vol. London: Ward and Lock, 1896.
Beacon Fires: War Stories of the Coast. 1 vol. London: Ward and Lock, 1897.
By a Hair's-Breadth. 1 vol. London: Cassell, 1897.
The Zone of Fire. 1 vol. London: Catchword.

Arthur Pearson, 1897.
Spectre Gold: Unornamented Romance of Klondyke. 1 vol. London: Cassell, 1898.
The Spies of the Wight. 1 vol. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1899.
The Shadow of the Bear. 1 vol. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1899.
Caged!: Birth Romance of a Lunatic Asylum. 1 vol. London: Ward and Lock, 1900.
The Plunder Ship. 1 vol. London: C.

Character Pearson, 1900.
The Sentence of prestige Court. 1 vol. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901.
The Peril of the Prince: A Romance of Modern Anarchism. 1 vol. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901.
Tracked Down. 1 vol. London: C.

Arthur Pearson, 1902.
Coronation Mysteries and Other Stories. 1 vol. London: Digby, Long, 1902.

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Bassett, Troy J. "Author: Frontal Hill." At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Tale, 1837—1901, 31 December 2024, http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2767.

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