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A. H. (Arthur Henry) Vesey
Best known today for early 1900s mystery and adventure fiction, this hard-to-find writer left behind brisk, puzzle-driven novels with titles like The Clock and the Key and The Castle of Lies. The surviving record is sparse, which only adds a little extra intrigue to the books themselves.
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The Clock and the Key
by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Vesey
About the author
A. H. Vesey, expanded as Arthur Henry Vesey, is a little-documented author whose work survives mainly through library catalogs and public-domain archives. Wikisource identifies the name as Arthur Henry Vesey, and Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page list works including The Clock and the Key and The Castle of Lies.
The available evidence suggests an early-20th-century novelist writing popular fiction for a general audience. The title page of The Clock and the Key presents Arthur Henry Vesey as the author and notes an earlier work, A Cheque for Three Thousand, showing that he had published more than one novel.
Because biographical details about his life are hard to confirm from readily available reliable sources, it is safer to remember him through the fiction itself: compact, entertaining stories from the Edwardian era, preserved thanks to digitization projects and library records.