author
Paul Thorne
Best known for co-writing early 20th-century mystery fiction with Mabel Thorne, this author helped create brisk, atmospheric detective stories with a strong period feel. Their work includes The Sheridan Road Mystery and The Secret Toll, with Paul Thorne also publishing several solo mysteries afterward.
2 Audiobooks
The Secret Toll
by Paul Thorne, Mabel Thorne
The Sheridan Road Mystery
by Paul Thorne, Mabel Thorne
About the author
Paul Thorne was an American mystery writer active in the early twentieth century. Reliable catalog and public-domain listings connect him with Mabel Thorne, his wife and frequent collaborator, on detective novels including The Sheridan Road Mystery (1921) and The Secret Toll (1922).
Book listings and library records also show Paul Thorne publishing solo mystery novels later in the decade and early 1930s, including Spiderweb Clues, Murder in the Fog, and That Evening in Shanghai. The surviving record available online is fairly sparse, so many personal biographical details are unclear, but his fiction remains of interest to readers who enjoy classic, plot-driven crime stories from the genre's early years.
Today, The Sheridan Road Mystery is still easy to find through public-domain and audiobook collections, which has helped keep Paul Thorne's name in circulation for modern mystery fans.