author
Alvin T. Thoits
Best known today as the co-author of the 1896 mystery novel Under Three Flags, this elusive writer left behind a very small public record. What can be confirmed points to a late-19th-century American author whose surviving reputation rests almost entirely on that one book.
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Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery
by Bert Leston Taylor, Alvin T. Thoits
About the author
Very little reliable biographical information about Alvin T. Thoits appears to survive in widely accessible sources. The clearest confirmed detail is that he is credited, alongside Bert Leston Taylor, as a co-author of Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery, published in 1896.
Because so little has been preserved online, Thoits remains a shadowy literary figure. That scarcity is part of his interest today: he represents the many authors whose work endured in print while personal details faded from the historical record.
For modern readers and listeners, his name is mainly encountered through reprints and digital editions of Under Three Flags, a period mystery that has helped keep this otherwise little-documented author in circulation.