author
Edgar Morette
A Paris-born writer who later lived in New Jersey, he left behind a small but varied body of work that includes a lively detective novel and several one-act plays. His best-known book, The Sturgis Wager (1899), mixes newspaper reporting, mystery, and sharp late-Victorian suspense.
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The Sturgis wager : A detective story
by Edgar Morette
About the author
Born in Paris on August 22, 1856, Edgar Morette later lived in the United States and died in Summit, New Jersey, on April 27, 1943. Surviving reference listings about him are sparse, but they consistently point to a writer whose work bridged crime fiction and the stage.
Morette is best known for The Sturgis Wager: A Detective Story, first published in 1899. The novel follows reporter-detective Ralph Sturgis through an intricate mystery, and its premise helped it endure long enough to be preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg and LibriVox.
He also wrote plays, including Oh! Helpless Man and The Water That Has Passed, and was credited with a collection titled Six One Act Plays. Even with so little biographical detail available, his surviving books suggest a writer interested in puzzles, theatrical situations, and compact dramatic storytelling.