author
Walter S. (Walter Sidney) Masterman
1876–1946
A prolific English storyteller, he wrote eerie, offbeat mysteries that often mixed detection with horror, fantasy, or science fiction. His novels from the 1920s and 1930s are especially remembered for their strange atmosphere and locked-room style intrigue.
2 Audiobooks
The curse of the Reckaviles
by Walter S. (Walter Sidney) Masterman
The wrong letter
by Walter S. (Walter Sidney) Masterman
About the author
Walter S. Masterman was an English author born in Wimbledon in 1876 and active mainly in the interwar years. Reference sources consistently describe him as a writer of mystery fiction who also moved easily into horror, fantasy, and science fiction, giving his work a distinctive genre-blending feel.
He is best known today for unusual detective and thriller novels such as The Wrong Letter and other stories that combine classic puzzle elements with sinister or uncanny ideas. Although he is not as widely read now as some of his contemporaries, his work has continued to attract interest from readers who enjoy older crime fiction with a darker, stranger edge.
Masterman died in 1946. I wasn’t able to confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources available here, so no profile image is included.