author
Gertrude Linnell
d. 1933
An early 20th-century writer whose books mixed adventure, mystery, and brisk storytelling, she left behind a small body of fiction that still turns up in digital libraries today.
1 Audiobook
The Black Ghost of the Highway
by Gertrude Linnell
About the author
Gertrude Linnell was an American author active in the early 1900s. Library and public-domain records confirm books including The Black Ghost of the Highway and Behind the Battlements, showing a taste for suspense, action, and dramatic settings.
The surviving online record is fairly thin, but catalog and ebook sources consistently identify her as having died in 1933. That makes her one of those writers whose work now survives mainly through archival collections and digitized editions rather than through a large modern biography.
Even with limited personal details available, her fiction suggests a writer interested in pace, atmosphere, and accessible storytelling. For listeners who enjoy rediscovered older books, her work offers a glimpse of popular adventure writing from the period.