Louis Tracy

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Tracy's novel Sylvia's Search was cover-featured on the April 1914 issue of Adventure

Louis Tracy (18 March 1863 - 13 August 1928) (born Patrick Joseph Treacy)<ref name=SF>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with the writer M. P. Shiel, with whom he collaborated until 1911.<ref>John D. Squires, "A Whiff of Collaboration: The Tracy-Shiel Connection" Template:Webarchive.</ref>

His fiction included mystery, adventure and romance.

Life

He was born in Liverpool to a well-to-do middle-class family. At first he was educated at home and then at the French Seminary at Douai. Around 1884 he became a reporter for a local paper, The Northern Echo at Darlington, circulating in parts of Durham and North Yorkshire; later he worked for papers in Cardiff and Allahabad. During 1892–1894 he was closely associated with Arthur Harmsworth, in The Sun and The Evening News and Post.

During WWI he travelled to the USA and gave lectures on the war; after the war, he worked with the British Foreign Office and later for the Times newspaper.<ref name=PP>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Published works

Tracy’s works include;

• The Final War: A Story of the Great Betrayed (1896) <ref name=VR>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• An American Emperor: The Story of the Fourth Empire of France (1897) <ref name=VR />
• The Lost Provinces: A Sequel to An American Emperor (1898) <ref name=VR />
• The Strange Disappearance of Lady Delia (1901) <ref name=VR />
• The Invaders: A Story of Britain Peril (1901) <ref name=VR />
• The Wooing of Esther Gray (1902) <ref name=VR />
• The Wings of the Morning (1903) <ref name=OLLT />
• The Sirdar's Sabre: Being for the most part the Adventures of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan (1905) <ref name=VR />
• The Wheel o’fortune (1907) <ref name=OLLT>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Captain of the Kansas (1907) <ref name=OLLT />
• The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley (1915) <ref name=GRLT>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• The Postmaster’s Daughter (1916) <ref name=WSLT>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• The Bartlett Mystery (1919) <ref name=GRLT />
• Number Seventeen (1919) <ref name=OLLT />
• The King of Diamonds <ref name=WSLT />
• The Wings of the Morning <ref name=WSLT />
• A Mysterious Disappearance <ref name=GRLT />
• The Albert Gate Mystery <ref name=WSLT />
• One Wonderful Night: A Romance in New York <ref name=OLLT />
• His Unknown Wife <ref name=GRLT />
• The House ‘round the Corner <ref name=GRLT />
• The Albert Gate Mystery <ref name=WSLT />

External links

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• Works by Louis Tracy at The Online Books Page