title: Frank L. Packard
text: # Frank L. Packard
  
  Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist.
  
  ## Life
  
  Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liège. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale.
  
  Several of his novels were made into films.
  
  Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Jimmie Dale series
  
  * The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) – (Wikisource text)
  * The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) – (Wikisource text)
  * Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (1922)
  * Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder (1930)
  * Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour (1935)
  * Return of the Grey Seal (2007) – (e-book compilation of first two books)
  * Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal by Michael Howard (2017) – (The first new Gray Seal book in more than eighty years.)
  
  ### Other works
  
  * On the Iron at Big Cloud (1911) (Wikisource text)
  * Greater Love Hath No Man (1913) (Wikisource text)
  * The Miracle Man (1914) – (Wikisource text)
  * The Belovéd Traitor (1915) – (Project Gutenberg book)
  * The Sin That Was His (1917)
  * The Wire Devils (1918)
  * Coogan's Last Run. (Novella) Published in Top-Notch magazine, Feb. 1918; a slightly expanded version of the short story "The Guardian of the Devil's Slide," which is included in On The Iron at Big Cloud (1911).)
  * From Now On (1919)
  * The Night Operator (1919)
  * The White Moll (1920) – (Wikisource text)
  * Pawned (1921)
  * Doors of the Night (1922)
  * The Four Stragglers (1923)
  * The Locked Book (1924)
  * Running Special (1925)
  * Broken Waters (1925)
  * The Red Ledger (1926)
  * The Devil's Mantle (1927)
  * Two Stolen Idols (1927)
  * Shanghai Jim (1928)
  * The Big Shot (1929)
  * Tiger Claws (1929)
  * Gold Skull Murders (1931)
  * The Hidden Door (1933)
  * The Purple Ball (1933)
  * The Dragon's Jaws (1937)
  * More Knaves Than One (1938) (Includes: More Knaves Than One, The King of Fools, Behind The Masks, and The Devil Sits In.)
  