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Burren Laughlin
A remarkably elusive early 20th-century writer, Burren Laughlin is known today for a single imaginative adventure built around riddles, peril, and quick thinking. The surviving record is thin, which only adds to the book’s old-storybook mystery.
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Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore
by Burren Laughlin, L. L. (Leopold L.) Flood
About the author
Burren Laughlin is credited as the co-author of Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore, a children's adventure first published in 1909 by H. M. Caldwell Co. in New York and Boston. The book was written with L. L. Flood and mixes fairy-tale romance with a series of puzzles that the hero must solve.
Modern catalog and public-domain listings suggest that this is the only widely documented work connected with Laughlin. Project Gutenberg and other library-style records continue to preserve the book, helping keep this unusual puzzle-filled tale in circulation for new readers.
Very little reliable biographical information about Laughlin appears to survive online, so details such as birthplace, dates, and broader career are unclear. For many readers, that makes the work itself the main legacy: a lively, inventive story from the early 1900s that still stands out for its blend of fantasy and brainteasers.