Gertrude Linnell

author

Gertrude Linnell

d. 1933

A little-known early 20th-century writer, she is remembered for adventure fiction such as The Black Ghost of the Highway. Her surviving public record is sparse, which gives her work an air of mystery for modern readers.

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The Black Ghost of the Highway

The Black Ghost of the Highway

by Gertrude Linnell

About the author

Born on December 30, 1892, Gertrude Baldwin Linnell died on March 18, 1933, at the age of 40. Public records available online identify her as Gertrude Baldwin Linnell and place her burial in Yonkers, New York.

She is credited as the author of The Black Ghost of the Highway, an adventure novel that has remained accessible through later reprints and library-style digital preservation. Beyond those book records, not much biographical information is easy to confirm today.

That scarcity means her fiction does much of the talking for her. For listeners and readers who enjoy rediscovering overlooked authors, Linnell stands as one of those nearly lost names whose work still survives even when the details of her life do not.