The pursuit by a super-woman detective, Madame Rosika Storey, of a strongly organized band of criminals whose speciality is jewel robbery on a gigantic scale. Rosika, in disguise, first has herself sent to prison, then is helped to escape by the organization, who thereupon accept her into their midst as a probationary, apprentice member. The directing genius of the group does not appear in person till the end, when Rosika traps him, but oversees from afar the undertakings of his “operatives.” These latter he entrusts to the care of a fearful female Fagin who keeps house for them in a Greenwich Village den.
William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was born in Hamilton, Canada, and later moved to New York where he attended grade school in Manhattan but beyond that was self-educated. After an unsuccessful attempt at an acting career, he decided to become a journalist and author and took a post on the Calgary Morning Albertan where he remained for a year before setting off on a solo 3,000 mile canoe journey exploring the upper Peace River country in Alberta, paying his expenses by syndicating the story to several Canadian newspapers. He returned to Alberta in 1911 with a companion, exploring the source of the Hay River in the Northwest Territories in a canvas boat and later wrote many short stories and adventure novels based on his early canoe voyages which were serialised in various magazines prior to book publication, with some being adapted for film. He undertook no further expeditions following his marriage in 1916 and after producing a number of works in the genres of mystery, adventure and romance, began writing detective fiction in the 1920s, acquiring a faithful following in the US, UK and other countries, which helped support his ever-growing family's lifestyle and their fondness for prolonged trips abroad. His most successful creation was the beautiful and brilliant female private investigator, Madame Rosika Storey, whose cases appeared in Argosy All-Story Weekly every year from 1922-35. This mystery novel was first published in 1919.
William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures during the period 1911 through 1920, including The Sealed Valley (1914) and The Fur Bringers (1920). About 1920 Footner began to write detective fiction. His first series detective character was 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 female-oriented Footner's fiction is. Amongst his other works are: Two on the Trail (1911), New Rivers of the North (1912), Jack Chanty (1913), The Huntress (1917), Thieve's Wit (1918), The Substitute Millionaire (1919), The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest (1920) and The Owl Taxi (1921).
Hulbert Footner (April 2, 1879 - November 17, 1944) was a Canadian born American writer of primarily detective fiction. He also wrote some non-fiction. Footner attended grade school in Manhattan and beyond that was self-educated. His complete reading program of classics of literature is laid out in his journal. His first known published item is a poem titled Roundelay For March published in 1902. His first article was published in 1903. Its subject was a canoe trip with a companion on the Hudson River, which began on the Fourth of July from the outskirts of New York City and ended at Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures during the period 1911 through 1920, including The Sealed Valley (1914) and The Fur Bringers (1920). About 1920 Footner began to write detective fiction. His first series detective character was 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 female-oriented Footner[s fiction is. Amongst his other works are: Two on the Trail (1911), New Rivers of the North (1912), Jack Chanty (1913), The Huntress (1917), Thieve[s Wit (1918), The Substitute Millionaire (1919), The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest (1920) and The Owl Taxi (1921).
Madame Storey is one of the most interesting as well as one of the most original characters in detective fiction. Her profession, as she would prefer to put it, is solving other people’s problems. She is a friend to every troubled soul. She works through her knowledge of the human heart and her feminine intuition is seldom at fault. In her latest adventures she is at her unsurpassable best, using her woman’s wits to solve the strange disappearance of Aline Elder, the mysterious death of Commodore Varick, the multi-millionaire, and other extraordinary occurrences.
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