The Adventures of Jimmie Dale

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.