J S Fletcher - why I like him

He lived from 1863 to 1935 (He was born on Charles Dickens’s birthday) His ministerial father died when he was eight years old. His father was a mighty reader, and had a passion for buying books, which was not a convenient one in a man of modest income. Fletcher had heard his mother say that she was never so anxious or fidgety in her life as on the days whereon he received his quarterly stipend, for the first instinct was to depart post-haste for the book shops, there to remain until the last shilling had been expended in folios, quartos, and octavos.

He wrote from 1882 to 1935

He wrote over 230 books, both fiction and non-fiction. 100+ were mysteries

• His mysteries involved intrigue with twists. Many times a new development would occur that would change your thinking on the solution of the crime or mystery.

• You know the saying, “age appropriate.” Let me coin a new one for Fletcher, “period appropriate.” His writing would sometimes include the ever so slightest introduction of romance. Period appropriate of course. Makes you chuckle nowadays. But that’s what makes it kind of sweet.

• Sometimes his non mystery fiction might include a moral or under the radar spiritual message.

• I’ve read over 100 of his titles. Each time upon finishing one of his works I usually muse , “That was good.”

• I’ve attempted to list some of my favorites. Understand that, that’s my opinion and mine alone. If you have a favorite I’d love to know the title and why you liked it. My email is: wrighthouse3@juno.com.

List of favorite mysteries

List of fiction titles

One commentator wrote: Fletcher’s first books published were poetry. He then moved on to write numerous works of historical fiction and history, many dealing with Yorkshire, which led to his selection as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and went on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell. Fletcher is sometimes incorrectly described as a “Golden Age of Detective Fiction” author, but he is in fact an almost exact contemporary of Conan Doyle. Most of his detective fiction works considerably pre-date that era, and even those few published within it do not conform to the closed form and strict rules professed, if not unfailingly observed, by the Golden Age writers. 
(source- https://jiescribano.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/j-s-fletcher-1863-1935/

I personally am more interested in Fletcher and his writing than where he fits in.

List of protagonists that were in a series:

Inspector Skarratt of Scotland Yard, in London, England:

• Marchester Royal (1909)

• The Wolves and the Lamb (1914)

• The Secret of Secrets (1929)

Ronald Camberwell, a private investigator

(“specialist in criminology … I have nothing to do with the police”) set in London, England:

• The Murder at Wrides Park (1931)

• Murder in Four Degrees (1931)

• Murder in the Squire’s Pew (1932)

• Murder of the Ninth Baronet (1932)

• Murder of the Only Witness (1933)

• The Mystery of the London Banker (1933)
  APA: Murder of a Banker (1933)

• Who Killed Alfred Snowe? (1933)
  APA: Murder of the Lawyer’s Clerk (1933)

• Murder of the Secret Agent (1934)

• The Ebony Box (1934)

• The Eleventh Hour (1935)

• Todmanhawe Grange (1937)
  APA: The Mill House Murder, Being the Last of the Adventures of Ronald Camberwell (1937)

Sargeant Charlesworth

• The Borgia Cabinet (1932)

• The Burma Ruby (1932) novella

Final disclaimer: Any errors in this work are my own. However I do hope that you found something of value in any or all that you read. DW.