author
Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
1877–1942
Best known for creating the gentleman-thief Jimmie Dale, this Canadian novelist mixed high-society mystery with fast-moving adventure. His stories also drew on years spent as a civil engineer, giving many of them a practical, lived-in sense of place.
13 Audiobooks
The Miracle Man
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
From Now On
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Doors of the Night
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
On the Iron at Big Cloud
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The White Moll
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The Night Operator
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The Sin That Was His
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The Belovéd Traitor
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The Wire Devils
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The Four Stragglers
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Pawned
by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
About the author
Born in Montreal in 1877, Frank L. Packard studied at McGill University and later at the Université de Liège. He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a civil engineer, and that experience fed directly into some of his early fiction.
Packard went on to become a prolific novelist and short-story writer, best remembered for the hugely popular Jimmie Dale stories. The character — a wealthy society man with a secret life in crime and detection — helped make Packard a notable name in early 20th-century popular fiction.
Alongside his mystery work, he also wrote adventure tales and railroad stories, building a career that connected technical know-how with page-turning plots. He died in Lachine, Quebec, in 1942.