Mrs. Charles Bryce

Mrs. Charles Bryce was the pen name used by Marion Bryce, an author of detective fiction from the early 1900s. She is most closely associated with The Ashiel Mystery: A Detective Story, a novel that has remained accessible through modern reprints and Project Gutenberg.

Reliable biographical details about her life are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it seems safest to describe her as a little-documented writer whose reputation rests mainly on her surviving mystery fiction. That relative obscurity is part of her interest for present-day readers: her work offers a glimpse of the period when detective stories were becoming a popular form of entertainment.

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