Frank L. Packard
# Frank L. Packard

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist.

## Life

Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liège. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale.

Several of his novels were made into films.

Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.

## Works

### Jimmie Dale series

* The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) – (Wikisource text)
* The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) – (Wikisource text)
* Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (1922)
* Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder (1930)
* Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour (1935)
* Return of the Grey Seal (2007) – (e-book compilation of first two books)
* Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal by Michael Howard (2017) – (The first new Gray Seal book in more than eighty years.)

### Other works

* On the Iron at Big Cloud (1911) (Wikisource text)
* Greater Love Hath No Man (1913) (Wikisource text)
* The Miracle Man (1914) – (Wikisource text)
* The Belovéd Traitor (1915) – (Project Gutenberg book)
* The Sin That Was His (1917)
* The Wire Devils (1918)
* Coogan's Last Run. (Novella) Published in Top-Notch magazine, Feb. 1918; a slightly expanded version of the short story "The Guardian of the Devil's Slide," which is included in On The Iron at Big Cloud (1911).)
* From Now On (1919)
* The Night Operator (1919)
* The White Moll (1920) – (Wikisource text)
* Pawned (1921)
* Doors of the Night (1922)
* The Four Stragglers (1923)
* The Locked Book (1924)
* Running Special (1925)
* Broken Waters (1925)
* The Red Ledger (1926)
* The Devil's Mantle (1927)
* Two Stolen Idols (1927)
* Shanghai Jim (1928)
* The Big Shot (1929)
* Tiger Claws (1929)
* Gold Skull Murders (1931)
* The Hidden Door (1933)
* The Purple Ball (1933)
* The Dragon's Jaws (1937)
* More Knaves Than One (1938) (Includes: More Knaves Than One, The King of Fools, Behind The Masks, and The Devil Sits In.)
