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Foxhall Daingerfield
1887–1933
A little-known American novelist and playwright, he wrote brisk mysteries in the late 1920s and early 1930s, including The House Across the Way, The Linden Walk Tragedy, and Mrs. Haney. His work has the feel of vintage crime fiction: compact, atmospheric, and quietly curious about the people behind the puzzle.
1 Audiobook
The southern cross : A play in four acts
by Foxhall Daingerfield
About the author
Born in 1887 and dying in 1933, Foxhall Daingerfield was an American author whose surviving record is slim, but bibliographic sources clearly link him to both fiction and drama. Project Gutenberg lists his play The Southern Cross, while library and book records show that he also published mystery novels such as The House Across the Way (1928), That Gay Nineties Murder (1928), The Linden Walk Tragedy (1929), and Mrs. Haney (1933).
What stands out most now is his place on the edges of early crime writing. His novels turn up in library catalogs, reprint listings, and used-book records rather than in long modern biographies, which gives him the air of a writer rediscovered by devoted mystery readers. For listeners who enjoy obscure Golden Age-era suspense, that rarity is part of the appeal.
Very little reliable biographical detail beyond his birth and death years was easy to confirm from strong public sources, so his books remain the best introduction to him. They suggest a writer working across stage and page, and one whose stories still attract interest from readers who like elegant, old-fashioned mysteries.