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J. T. Goddard
A Prince Edward Island writer who brought a scholar’s curiosity to fiction, creating mystery and speculative novels with strong Canadian settings. Writing as J. T. Goddard, he is best known for the Gavin Rashford books and for stories that mix suspense, politics, and place.
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The Velocipede: Its History, Varieties, and Practice
by J. T. Goddard
About the author
Known in academic life as Dr. John Timothy Goddard, he was a professor, dean, and later Professor Emeritus at the University of Prince Edward Island. Alongside that long career in education, he also wrote fiction under the name J. T. Goddard.
His novels include the Gavin Rashford series, with books such as Traces, Tracks, Scammers, and Found. Contemporary coverage described him as a PEI-based author and a "recovering academic," a phrase that captures the way his fiction seems to draw on both lived experience and wide-ranging interests.
He died in January 2025 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Remembered in both academic and literary circles, he left behind work that combines an eye for ideas with a strong sense of story.