The Mystery of M. Felix - Softcover

Farjeon, B. L.

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ISBN 10: 1979254303 ISBN 13: 9781979254304

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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Originally published in 1890, this Victorian thriller takes melodrama to a new level with true Dickensian flair. A suspicious death in the midst of a record snowstorm. A disappearing body. A strange ghost. This gripping novel holds as many twists and turns as the mysterious mountaintop meeting standing at the center of this long-forgotten yet haunting tale. By the author of Great Porter Square: A Mystery. Also available from Red Herrring Books.

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About the Author

Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (12 May 1838 – 23 July 1903) was a British novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. As an author, he was known for his huge output. Farjeon was born in London to Dinah Levy and Jacob Farjeon, Orthodox Jews. He was raised in Whitechapel and had no formal secular education. At fourteen, he entered the office of the Nonconformist, a Christian journal, to learn the printing trade. He broke away from the strict faith of his father and in 1854 immigrated to Australia. During the voyage he was moved from steerage to cabin class because he had produced some numbers of a ship newspaper, the Ocean Record. Farjeon worked as a gold miner in Victoria (Australia), started a newspaper, then went to New Zealand in 1861. He settled at Dunedin, working as a journalist on the Otago Daily Times, edited by Julius Vogel. Farjeon became manager and sub-editor. He began writing novels and plays. He attracted the attention of Charles Dickens. In 1868, he returned to Britain and lived in London in the Adelphi Theatre. Over the next thirty-five years he produced nearly sixty novels. Many of his works were illustrated by his long-time friend Nicholas Chevalier. He died in Hampstead on 23 July 1903, aged 65.

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