Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (Esprios Classics)

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2 1877 - February 17 1942) was a Canadian novelist. Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liege. 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.