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Headon Hill
1857–1927
A prolific British journalist-novelist, this writer built a following with brisk adventure, detective, and spy stories in the late Victorian and Edwardian years. Writing under the name Headon Hill, he became especially associated with crime fiction and Scotland Yard-style procedurals.
2 Audiobooks
A Traitor's Wooing
by Headon Hill
The Duke Decides
by Headon Hill
About the author
Born Francis Edward Grainger in 1857, he wrote under the pen name Headon Hill and worked as a British journalist as well as a popular fiction writer. Reliable reference sources describe him as a specialist in adventure, detective, and spy stories, with a strong reputation for crime fiction.
His books include Clues from a Detective's Camera and many other thrillers and mysteries that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century. Later reference works also note that he is remembered in part for police procedurals centered on Scotland Yard methods, which gives his fiction a clear place in the development of early popular crime writing.
Headon Hill died in 1927. Although he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, his work still turns up in library catalogs, digital archives, and genre reference guides, where readers of classic mysteries and Victorian suspense continue to rediscover him.