Hulbert Footner, Collection

Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction.

He wrote many short stories and novels based on his early adventurous canoe voyages, which were serialized in Cavalier, Western Story Magazine, Argosy, Munsey’s and Mystery and then published as novels. His book, New Rivers of the North was utilized by subsequent surveyors and mapmakers to guide them as they moved north into the unmapped North West Territory to Slave Lake. His explorations of upper Canada are recognized by these officials, who were the original surveyors, and used this book as a guide, then gave his name in appreciation to beautiful Lake Footner near the town of High Level and to a large tree preserve in northwestern Alberta, which has the name Footner Forest.

About 1920, Footner began to write detective fiction, his first series detective character being Madame Rosika Storey. Footner's other series detective is Amos Lee Mappin, a successful, middle aged mystery writer whose crimes tend to occur in New York's cafe society. Mappin is unusual in that his "Watson" (at least in some of his tales) is a young woman, his secretary Fanny Parran. She is one of the few female "Watsons" in fiction, an example of how unusually female-oriented Footner's fiction was.

In this ebook:

Two on the Trail

The Deaves Affair

The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest

The Woman from Outside

The Huntress

Orchids to Murder

Sinfully Rich

The Almost Perfect Murder. A Case Book of Madame Storey.

The Doctor Who Held Hands. A Madame Storey Novel.

Madame Storey

The Velvet Hand. New Madame Storey Mysteries.

The Kidnapping of Madame Storey and Other Stories

Easy to Kill

The Under Dogs

The Shanty Sled

New Rivers of the North. The yarn of two amateur explorers.