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Samuel Fletcher
A prolific English storyteller, he turned out hundreds of books ranging from journalism and historical writing to the detective fiction that made him especially well known. His work has an energetic, old-fashioned storytelling style that helped shape early popular mysteries.
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Fire Cloud; Or, The Mysterious Cave. A Story of Indians and Pirates.
by Samuel Fletcher
About the author
Born in 1863, J. S. Fletcher was an English journalist and author who wrote more than 230 books across fiction and nonfiction. He worked in journalism as well as book writing, and his huge output covered history, social topics, adventure, and crime.
He is best remembered for detective fiction. Many readers know him for fast-moving mysteries and for the steady stream of novels he produced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when magazine and popular fiction publishing were booming.
Fletcher died in 1935, but his books have remained widely available through reprints and digital editions. If you enjoy classic mysteries with brisk pacing and a strong sense of period atmosphere, his work is still an easy author to explore.