Lawrence L. Lynch
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
(17 march 1906, p. 6)
Lawrence L. Lynch was the pen name of Emily Medora Murdock Van Deventer (16 january 1853 - 1914) an American writer. At the time, it was not convenient for women to write mystery/crime novels so she published under the name of her husband, Lawrence L. Lynch. In 1887, she was married with Dr. Abraham Van Deventer but she kept her first pen name. She was a prolific writer, producing more than 20 novels in 16 years, between 1896 and 1912.
Her detective characters were: Francis Ferrars (Shadowed by Three, The Last Stroke, The Lost Witness, ...), Lionel Payne (Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter).
In 1906, The Topeka State Journal mentioned her as The American Conan Doyle in a review of her novel The Doverfields' Diamonds.
Bibliography
- Shadowed by Three aka A Woman's Crime (1879)
- The Diamond Coterie (1884)
- Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter (1884)
- Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives (1885)
- Out of a Labyrinth (1885)
- A Mountain Mystery: or, The Outlaws of the Rockies (1886)
- The Lost Witness; or, The Mystery of Leah Paget Laird (1890)
- Moina; or, Against the Mighty (1891)
- A Slender Clue; or, The Mystery of Mardi Gras (1891)
- A Dead Man's Step (1893)
- Against Odds (1894)
- No Proof (1895)
- The Last Stroke. A Detective Story (1896)
- The Unseen Hand (1898)
- High Stakes (1899)
- Under Fate's Wheel (1901)
- The Woman Who Dared (1902)
- The Danger Line (1903)
- A Woman's Tragedy; or, The Detective's Task (1904)
- The Doverfields' Diamonds (1906)
- Man and Master (1908)
- A Sealed Verdict (1910)
- A Blind Lead (1912)
