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Victor MacClure

1887–1963

A little-known early 20th-century novelist, remembered today mainly for the mystery novel She Stands Accused. The surviving record is sparse, which gives his work a slightly hidden-library appeal.

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She Stands Accused

She Stands Accused

by Victor MacClure

About the author

Victor MacClure (1887–1963) is listed in major library and public-domain catalogues as an author active in the first half of the 20th century. The work most clearly linked to him in the sources I found is She Stands Accused, which is also available through Project Gutenberg.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his birth and death years is limited in the sources available online. Because the documented record is so thin, he seems to be one of those writers known more through surviving editions and catalog entries than through a widely preserved public biography.

That obscurity may be part of his interest for modern readers: MacClure belongs to the large group of once-published authors whose books still offer a glimpse of the popular fiction of their time, even if the author himself has mostly slipped out of view.