About our authors

Alice and Claude Askew

Alice and Claude Askew were the best-selling writing partnership behind many popular novels published during the Edwardian period. Their crime mystery classic 

J.B. Harris-Burland

J.B. Harris-Burland was a successful and prolific novelist of the early twentieth century, responsible for over thirty novels. Although Harris-Burland was best known for his fantasy stories, he wrote a number of mysteries and crime stories. 

Lawrence L. Lynch

Lawrence L. Lynch was the pseudonym of Emma Murdock Van Deventer, a best-selling mystery novelist from Oswego, Illinois, whose career spanned a thirty year period bridging the Victorian and Edwardian periods. A Blind Lead, her final novel, was published in 1912, two years before her death. 

Guy Boothby

Guy Boothby was one of the most prolific Australian authors of the late nineteenth century, writing over fifty books in a career that spanned a little more than a decade. 

John Finnemore

John Finnemore was a successful writer of adventure stories in the early twentieth century. Although many of his works were based around school stories and scouting adventures, he also wrote a number of mysteries, including The Secret Entrance, which was first published in 1907. 

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was a prolific and well-known author of popular fiction working in Britain in the early twentieth century. In a writing career which lasted for little more than thirty years he produced over 170 novels, many of them thrillers and mystery stories. Whilst best known today for his screenplay for the film King Kong, Wallace was a respected and highly successful writer during his lifetime.