author
Gertrude Linnell
d. 1933
A Canadian-born novelist whose short career left behind atmospheric popular fiction, she is best known today for The Black Ghost of the Highway. Her life was brief, but her books still carry the pace and mystery of early 20th-century adventure stories.
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The Black Ghost of the Highway
by Gertrude Linnell
About the author
Born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1892, Gertrude Baldwin Linnell later died in New York in 1933. The basic biographical record available online is quite sparse, so much of her life remains little documented in widely accessible sources.
She is remembered as the author of works including The Black Ghost of the Highway and Behind the Battlements. Her fiction has continued to circulate through library catalogs, reader databases, and public-domain archives, which has helped preserve interest in her writing long after her death.
Because reliable source material on her personal life is limited, the clearest picture available is of a writer from the early 20th century whose surviving books still offer modern readers a glimpse of the era's taste for suspense, travel, and adventure.