author
Susan Morrow Jones
d. 1926
Best known for vivid adventure and mystery stories set in Canada, this early 20th-century novelist wrote with a strong feel for wilderness, danger, and human resilience. She also published under several pen names, which gives her work an extra air of literary intrigue.
2 Audiobooks
A Girl of the North: A Story of London and Canada
by Susan Morrow Jones
The La Chance Mine Mystery
by Susan Morrow Jones
About the author
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Susan Morrow Jones was a Canadian novelist active around the turn of the 20th century. Reliable library and catalog sources identify her as living from 1864 to 1926, and note that she also wrote under the names S. Carleton, Carleton-Milecete, and Helen Milecete.
Her fiction includes A Girl of the North (1900), The Lame Priest (1901), The Sound of the Axe (1902), The Career of Mrs Osborne (1903), and The La Chance Mine Mystery. These titles suggest the range she worked in: adventure, romance, and light mystery, often with strong Canadian settings.
What makes her work appealing today is its atmosphere. Her novels bring together remote landscapes, suspense, and personal drama in a way that still feels lively, especially for listeners who enjoy rediscovered fiction from the early 1900s.