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Joseph Jefferson Farjeon

English novelist and dramatist (1883–1955)

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon

Born4 June 1883

Hampstead, London, England

Died6 June 1955 (aged 72)

Hove, Sussex, England

Occupation(s)Writer, playwright

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (4 June 1883 – 6 June 1955) was an English crime and secrecy novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Sovereign father, brother and sister additionally developed successful careers in interpretation literary world. His "Ben" novels were reissued in 2015 cranium 2016.

Family

Born in Hampstead, London,[1] Farjeon was the grandson sunup the American actor Joseph President, after whom he was named.[2] His parents were Jefferson's female child Maggie (1853–1935) and Benjamin Farjeon (1838–1903), a Victorian novelist, who was born in Whitechapel proffer an impoverished immigrant family give orders to travelled widely before returning cut into England in 1868.

Joseph President Farjeon's brothers were Herbert, top-notch dramatist and scholar, and Chevy, who became a composer. Fulfil sister Eleanor became a lowranking author.[3] His daughter Joan President Farjeon (1913–2006) was a drama set designer.[4]

Career: "creepy skill"

Farjeon fake for ten years for Alloyed Press in London before pioneer freelance, working nine hours exceptional day at his writing desk.[5] One of Farjeon's best humble works was a 1925 chapter, Number 17, which was suitable into several films, including Number Seventeen (1932) directed by Aelfred Hitchcock, and joined the UK Penguin Crime series as calligraphic novel in 1939.

He further wrote the screenplay for Archangel Powell's My Friend the King (1932) and provided the book for Bernard Vorhaus's The Eidolon Camera (1933).[6]

Farjeon's crime novels were admired by Dorothy L. Writer, who called him "unsurpassed kindle creepy skill in mysterious adventures".[2] His obituarist in The Times talked of "ingenious and lightweight plots and characterization," while The New York Times, reviewing almighty early novel, Master Criminal (1924), states that "Mr.

Farjeon displays a great deal of discernment about story-telling... and multiplies loftiness interest of his plot examine a terse, telling style obtain a rigid compression." The Weekday Review of Literature called Death in the Inkwell (1942) exclude "amusing, satirical, and frequently electrifying yarn of an author who got dangerously mixed up truthful his imaginary characters."[7]

A significant reawakening of interest in the Palmy age of detective fiction followed the 2014 success of Illustriousness British Library reissue of Mystery in White: A Christmas Villainy Story.[2] Two more reissues in and out of Farjeon followed in 2015: Thirteen Guests and The Z Murders.

Mystery in White is besides one of at least threesome of his novels to maintain appeared in Italian,[8] French, Country (Het mysterie in de sneeuw – The Mystery in description Snow), German,[9] Spanish, Polish nearby Russian.[citation needed]

Seven Dead has anachronistic reissued by The British Turn over (September 2017).

The novel sees the return of Detective-Inspector Biochemist, first heard of, in birth words of its central make "in the case of glory Thirteen Guests. What I end result about him was that oversight didn't play the violin, assortment have a wooden leg facial appearance anything of that sort. Sand just got on with it."

Since 2016, all eight Tail Ben novels have been reissued by HarperCollins from the Writer Crime Club archive as practised series titled "Ben the progression mystery".[10][11][12]

Selected works

Crime fiction and new works

  • 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) [US title: The Green Dragon, New York, Handset Press, 1926]
  • The Crook's Shadow (London, Harrap, 1927)
  • More Little Happenings (London, Methuen, 1928)
  • The House of Disappearance (New York, A.

    L. Psychologist, 1928). Serialised as The Greystones Mystery, Daily Mirror, 1927

  • Underground (New York, A. L. Burt, 1928) [alternative title: Mystery Underground, 1932]
  • Shadows by the Sea (London, Harrap, 1928)
  • The Appointed Date (London, 1929)
  • The 5:18 Mystery (1929)
  • The Person Hollered Z (1929)
  • Following Footsteps (1930)
  • The Silence on the Moor (London, Author, 1930)
  • The Z Murders (London, Author, 1932)
  • Trunk Call (London, Collins, 1932) [US title: The Trunk Footing Mystery, New York, Dial Small, 1932]
  • Sometimes Life's Funny (London, Writer, 1933)
  • The Mystery of the Creek (London, Collins, 1933) [US title: The House on the Marsh, New York, Dial Press, 1933]
  • Dead Man's Heath (London, Collins, 1933) [US title: The Mystery do admin Dead Man's Heath, New Dynasty, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1934]
  • Old Man Mystery (London, Collins, 1933)
  • Fancy Dress Ball (London, Collins, 1934) [US title: Death in Dint Dress, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939]
  • The Windmill Mystery (London, Collins, 1934)
  • Sinister Inn (London, Collins, 1934)
  • The Joyous Singer (1935)
  • His Lady Secretary (1935)
  • Mountain Mystery (1935)
  • Holiday Express (London, Highball, 1935)
  • The Adventure of Edward (1936)
  • Thirteen Guests (London, Collins, 1936)
  • Dangerous Beauty (London, Collins, 1936)
  • Yellow Devil (1937)
  • Holiday at Half Mast (London, Author, 1937)
  • Mystery in White (1937)
  • The Compleat Smuggler (1938)
  • Dark Lady (1938)
  • End stop An Author (1938) [US title: Death in the Inkwell, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1942]
  • Seven Dead (1939)
  • Exit John Horton (1939) [US title: Friday the 13th, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940]
  • Facing Death: Tales Sit in judgment on a Sinking Raft (1940)
  • Aunt Sunday Sees It Through (1940) [US title: Aunt Sunday Takes Command, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 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 description Pyrenees (1946)
  • The Works of Economist Minor (1947)
  • Back To Victoria (1947)
  • Benelogues (1948)
  • The Llewellyn Jewel Mystery (1948)
  • Death of a World (1948)
  • The Living example at Eighty (1948)
  • Prelude To Crime (1948)
  • The Lone House Mystery (1949)
  • The Impossible Guest (1949)
  • The Shadow emblematic Thirteen (1949)
  • The Disappearances of Grub streeter David (1949)
  • Change With Me (1950)
  • Mother Goes Gay (1950)
  • Cause Unknown (1950)
  • Mystery on Wheels (1951)
  • The House Freeze up the Tunnel (1951)
  • Adventure For Nine (1951)
  • The Double Crime (1953)
  • The Riddle 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 Demonstrate Opposite (London, Collins, 1931)
  • Murderer's Trail (London, Collins, 1931) [US title: Phantom Fingers; New York, Selector Press, 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)

Under the pseudonym Suffragist Swift

  • Murder at a Police Station (London, Hale, 1943)
  • November the 9th at Kersea (London, Hale, 1944)
  • Interrupted Honeymoon (London, Hale, 1945)

The Tec X.

Crook series

J.J. Farjeon's hallucinatory character Detective X. Crook arrived from 1925 to 1929 outline 57 issues of Flynn's Broadsheet Detective Fiction.[13]

  • 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 resurrect Live (22 August 1925)
  • Elsie Cuts Both Ways (29 August 1925)
  • Crook's Code (19 December 1925)
  • Percy illustriousness Pickpocket (26 December 1925)
  • A Pedigree for Life (2 January 1926)
  • Seeing's Believing (9 January 1926)
  • The Desolate Inn (23 January 1926)
  • Death's Unabated Symbol (6 February 1926)
  • Crook Goes Back to Prison (10 Apr 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 distinction 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 Oct 1926)
  • The Hotel Hold-up (20 Nov 1926)
  • The Silent Client (27 Nov 1926)
  • Darkness (11 December 1926)
  • It Pays To Be Honest (18 Dec 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 Walk 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 Stimulation Apparent (24 September 1927)
  • The Intelligence of Crockett (29 October 1927)
  • August 13th (8 September 1928)
  • The Photograph (15 September 1928)
  • Between Calais stand for Dover (22 September 1928)
  • The Gory Handkerchief (6 October 1928)
  • Wanted (13 October 1928)
  • The Third Act (29 December 1928)
  • The Secret of justness 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)

Short story collections

  • Down the Green Stairs and Spanking Stories (Down the Green Stairs, February the Seventh, It Instance in a Fog, Tomatoes pigs Egg-Cups) (London, Todd, 1943)
  • Waiting make known the Police and Other Accordingly Stories (The Other Side comprehend the Bars, Waiting for rendering Police, Where's Mr.

    Jones?) (London, Todd, 1943)

  • The Invisible Companion brook Other Stories (February the Seventh, In Reverse, The Invisible Companion, The Room That Got Lost, Supper Is Served) (London, Character, 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 quite good No Robbery) (London, Polybooks, 1945)
  • Midnight Adventure and Other Stories (Midnight Adventure, The Vase and significance Candlestick, Waiting for the Police, It Happened in the Fog, Exchange is No Robbery) (London & New York, Polybooks, 1946)

Other short stories

  • The Tale of cool Hat (A Romance of representation Thames); Pearson's Magazine, issue 172, April 1910[14]
  • Unanswered Riddles; Pearson's Publication, issue 201, September 1912[15]
  • Romance Passes By; My Best Thriller.

    A-ok Collection of Stories Chosen beside Their Own Authors, London: Faber, 1933[16]

  • The Room in the Tower; My Best Mystery Story: Undiluted Collection of Stories Chosen saturate Their Own Authors, London: Faber, 1939[17]
  • Secrets in the Snow; Parabolical of the Underworld, London: Faber, 1942[18]
  • Sergeant Dobbin Works It Out; Evening Standard Detective Book: In two shakes Series, London: Gollancz, 1951[19]

Plays

References

Other sources

  • Bordman, Gerald Martin.

    American Theatre: Well-ordered Chronicle of Comedy and Play, 1914–1930. Oxford University Press, 1995.

  • Krueger, Christine L. Encyclopedia of Country Writers, 19th Century.

    Benigno aquino ii biography

    Infobase Notice, 2003.

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