Momentos

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon fue un escritor británico. Nació en Londres, el 4 de junio de 1883 y falleció en Sussex, el 6 de junio de 1955.

Procedía de una familia de intelectuales, comenzó a escribir en editoriales, enseguida publicó novelas, guiones para teatro.

Tuvo un gran éxito y reconocimiento en su día, en la actualidad se han reeditado algunas de sus obras.

Obra:

Novelas de misterio –

• The Master Criminal (London, Brentano’s, 1924)
• The Confusing Friendship (London, Brentano’s, 1924)
• Little Things That Happen (London, Methuen, 1925)
• Uninvited Guests (London, Brentano’s, 1925)
• At the Green Dragon (London, Harrap, 1926)
• The Crook’s Shadow (London, Harrap, 1927)
• More Little Happenings (London, Methuen, 1928)
• The House of Disappearance (New York, A. L. Burt, 1928).
• Underground (New York, A. L. Burt, 1928)
• Shadows by the Sea (London, Harrap, 1928)
• The Appointed Date (London, 1929)
• The 5:18 Mystery (1929)
• The Person Called Z (1929)
• Following Footsteps (1930)
• The Mystery on the Moor (London, Collins, 1930)
• The Z Murders (London, Collins, 1932)
• Trunk Call (London, Collins, 1932)
• Sometimes Life’s Funny (London, Collins, 1933)
• The Mystery of the Creek (London, Collins, 1933)
• Dead Man’s Heath (London, Collins, 1933)
• Old Man Mystery (London, Collins, 1933)
• Fancy Dress Ball (London, Collins, 1934)
• The Windmill Mystery (London, Collins, 1934)
• Sinister Inn (London, Collins, 1934)
• The Golden Singer (1935)
• His Lady Secretary (1935)
• Mountain Mystery (1935)
• Holiday Express (London, Collins, 1935)
• The Adventure of Edward (1936)
• Thirteen Guests (London, Collins, 1936)
• Dangerous Beauty (London, Collins, 1936)
• Yellow Devil (1937)
• Holiday at Half Mast (London, Collins, 1937)
• Misterio en blanco. Mystery in White (1937)
• The Compleat Smuggler (1938)
• Dark Lady (1938)
• End of An Author (1938)
• Seven Dead (1939)
• Exit John Horton (1939)
• Facing Death: Tales Told on a Sinking Raft (1940)
• Aunt Sunday Sees It Through (1940)
• Room Number 6 (1941)
• The Third Victim (1941)
• The Judge Sums Up (1942)
• The House of Shadows (1943)
• Greenmask (1944)
• Black Castle (1944)
• Rona Runs Away (1945)
• The Oval Table (1946)
• Peril in the Pyrenees (1946)
• The Works of Smith Minor (1947)
• Back To Victoria (1947)
• Benelogues (1948)
• The Llewellyn Jewel Mystery (1948)
• Death of a World (1948)
• The Adventure at Eighty (1948)
• Prelude To Crime (1948)
• The Lone House Mystery (1949)
• The Impossible Guest (1949)
• The Shadow of Thirteen (1949)
• The Disappearances of Uncle David (1949)
• Change With Me (1950)
• Mother Goes Gay (1950)
• Cause Unknown (1950)
• Mystery on Wheels (1951)
• The House Over the Tunnel (1951)
• Adventure For Nine (1951)
• The Double Crime (1953)
• The Mystery of the Map (1953)
• Money Walks (1953)
• Castle of Fear (1954)
• Bob Hits the Headlines (1954)
• The Caravan Adventure (1955)

Detective Ben series –

• No. 17 (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1926)
• The House Opposite (London, Collins, 1931)
• Murderer’s Trail (London, Collins, 1931)
• Ben Sees It Through (London, Collins, 1932)
• Little God Ben (London, Collins, 1935)
• Detective Ben (London, Collins, 1936)
• Ben on the Job (London, Collins, 1952)
• Number Nineteen (London, Collins, 1952)

Con el seudónimo Anthony Swift –

• Murder at a Police Station (London, Hale, 1943)
• November the Ninth at Kersea (London, Hale, 1944)
• Interrupted Honeymoon (London, Hale, 1945)

The Detective X. Crook series –

• Red Eye (20 June 1925)
• The Bilton Safe (27 June 1925)
• The Way to Death (4 July 1925)
• Thomas Doubts No Longer (11 July 1925)
• Fisherman’s Luck (18 July 1925)
• Where the Treasure Is (1 August 1925)
• The Hidden Death (8 August 1925)
• Nine Hours to Live (22 August 1925)
• Elsie Cuts Both Ways (29 August 1925)
• Crook’s Code (19 December 1925)
• Percy the Pickpocket (26 December 1925)
• A Race for Life (2 January 1926)
• Seeing’s Believing (9 January 1926)
• The Deserted Inn (23 January 1926)
• Death’s Grim Symbol (6 February 1926)
• Crook Goes Back to Prison (10 April 1926)
• Who Killed James Fyne (17 April 1926)
• Caleb Comes Back (24 April 1926)
• The Vanished Gift (1 May 1926)
• The Death That Beckoned (15 May 1926)
• Footprints in the Snow (17 July 1926)
• The Shadow (24 July 1926)
• Cats Are Evil (14 August 1926)
• The Silent House (28 August 1926)
• The Kleptomaniac (18 September 1926)
• The Knife (23 October 1926)
• The Hotel Hold-up (20 November 1926)
• The Silent Client (27 November 1926)
• Darkness (11 December 1926)
• It Pays To Be Honest (18 December 1926)
• Kidnaped (25 December 1926)
• Whose Hand? (8 January 1927)
• The Datchett Diamond (29 January 1927)
• Vanishing Gems (5 February 1927)
• The Murder Club (26 February 1927)
• LQ585 (5 March 1927)
• The Stolen Hand Bag (19 March 1927)
• Prescription 93b (26 March 1927)
• The Thing in the Room (7 May 1927)
• In the Diamond Line (28 May 1927)
• The New Baronet (4 June 1927)
• The Fourth Attempt (9 July 1927)
• The Absconding Treasurer (23 July 1927)
• The Man Who Forgot (3 September 1927)
• No Motive Apparent (24 September 1927)
• The Cleverness of Crockett (29 October 1927)
• August 13th (8 September 1928)
• The Photograph (15 September 1928)
• Between Calais and Dover (22 September 1928)
• The Bloodstained Handkerchief (6 October 1928)
• Wanted (13 October 1928)
• The Third Act (29 December 1928)
• The Secret of the Snow (9 February 1929)
• Open Warfare (16 February 1929)
• The Photographic Touch (9 March 1929)
• The «Times» Advertisement (30 March 1929)
• The Golden Idol (13 April 1929)

Historias cortas, recopilaciones –

• Down the Green Stairs and Other Stories (Down the Green Stairs, February the Seventh, It Happened in a Fog, Tomatoes in Egg-Cups) (London, Todd, 1943)
• Waiting for the Police and Other Short Stories (The Other Side of the Bars, Waiting for the Police, Where’s Mr. Jones?) (London, Todd, 1943)
• The Invisible Companion and Other Stories (February the Seventh, In Reverse, The Invisible Companion, The Room That Got Lost, Supper Is Served) (London, Todd, 1943)
• The Twist and Other Stories (The Twist, The Room, In Reverse) (London, Vallancey Press, 1944)
• The Haunted Lake and Other Stories (The Haunted Lake, Midnight Adventure, Supper is Served, Exchange is No Robbery) (London, Polybooks, 1945)
• Midnight Adventure and Other Stories (Midnight Adventure, The Vase and the Candlestick, Waiting for the Police, It Happened in the Fog, Exchange is No Robbery) (London & New York, Polybooks, 1946)

Otras historias cortas –

• The Tale of a Hat (A Romance of the Thames); Pearson’s Magazine, issue 172, April 1910
• Unanswered Riddles; Pearson’s Magazine, issue 201, September 1912
• Romance Passes By; My Best Thriller. A Collection of Stories Chosen by Their Own Authors, London: Faber, 1933
• The Room in the Tower; My Best Mystery Story: A Collection of Stories Chosen by Their Own Authors, London: Faber, 1939
• Secrets in the Snow; Stories of the Underworld, London: Faber, 1942
• Sergeant Dobbin Works It Out; Evening Standard Detective Book: Second Series, London: Gollancz, 1951.

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