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Nom légal: Packard, Frank Lucius
Date de naissance: 1877-02-02
Date de décès: 1942-02-17
Lieu de sépulture: Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Canada
Lieu de naissance: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lieu du décès: Lachine, Quebec, Canada
Professions: civil engineer
Courte biographie: He was born to American parents in Montreal, Quebec and lived both in the U.S. and Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1897 and went to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a civil engineer. He started writing at the turn of the 20th Century and sold his first work in 1902. His writing met with public approval and he moved to New York City and began writing full time a few years later. His initial work was short story railroad fiction. He married in 1910 and he and his bride took a year long tour of the U.S. and Canada both as a honeymoon and as a search for material for his writing. In addition to short story railroad fiction Packard wrote crime fiction and his best known series in this genre is the collection of Jimmy Dale mysteries.

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On the Iron at Big Cloud par Frank L. Packard

A book of 7 short stories by Frank L. Packard. Packard often wrote about the James G. Hill railroad and these stories are about incidents at said railroad. Nothing exciting, but they are time period pieces--my guess would be 1870-1890's in the Rockies, probably in Canada (as he is Canadian). The best of the lot was 'The Builder', about a strike where the trestle was blown up and a train was on its way. I read this on Project Gutenberg as I was unable to open my very old e-file.

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Tess_W | Jun 7, 2022 |

Shanghai Jim par Frank L. Packard

This book contains four stories. Shanghai Jim, The Mandarin's Hoard, The Marauder, and The Imposter. They are all great sea stories mostly about the South Pacific. The author is a Canadian who was very popular in North America and England. I can see there is even a Swedish edition of this story. I've got more information on the author in my blog, Stillwoods.Blogspot.Com, you can search using the box at the top left. I've even digitized Shanghai Jim, and The Maurader is digitized under another name 'pirates', I believe.… (plus d'informations)

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frizzledr | Feb 2, 2017 |

THE FOUR STRAGGLERS. par Frank L. Packard

This story is about some English thieves that travel to the Florida keys in order to rob a rich tycoon of his fortune.
It is a creative plot that actually presages the stock market crash of 1929. The book was originally written in 1923, by Frank L. Packard, a Canadaian.

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frizzledr | Jan 31, 2017 |

The White Moll par Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

What are youse guys lookin at dere? So this moll thought this wild ride of nostalgia was da best, see?

What a fun book. Great strong female protagonist -- had to be a rare thing back in the day. I'm not sure when this was written but probably in the early 20's more or less. Some of the dialogue was a bit much, but it was a good story and a lot of fun.

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AliceAnna | Oct 24, 2014 |

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