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Joseph Smith Fletcher was born in Halifax in 1863, and educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield. He gave us more than a hundred detective novels.

The Bedford Row Mystery appeared in 1925, and has twenty-eight chapters:

1.    Called to Remembrance
2.    The Dilemma
3.    Murder!
4.    Gone!
5.    Forestalled
6.    On Whose Behalf?
7.    The Ex-Superintendent
8.    The Detective Theorises
9.    Smouldering Fires
10.  News
11.  Mantrap Manor
12.  Mr. Louis Vandelius
13.  Mr. Vandelius Explains
14.  Through the Lady’s Maid
15.  Flown!
16.  Lansdale Speaks
17.  Twenty Thousand Pounds
18.  Trace the Notes
19.  Side Whiskers
20.  The Riverside Hotel
21.  The Bridge
22.  Trapped
23.  Look for that Woman!
24.  The House in Bernard Street
25.  The Dead Man’s Letter
26.  The Visiting Card
27.  Straight to the Point
28.  Final

List of some of his productions:
    Frank Carisbroke's Stratagem (1888)
    Andrewlina (1889)
    Mr. Spivey's Clerk (1890)
    When Charles the First Was King (1892)
    In the Days of Drake (1895)
    Where Highways Cross (1895)
    Mistress Spitfire (1896)
    Baden Powell of Mafeking (1900)
    Lucian the Dreamer (1903)
    Perris of the Cherry-Trees (1913)
    The King versus Wargrave (1915)
    The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation (1917)
    Paul Campenhaye (1918)
    The Chestermarke Instinct (1918)
    The Borough Treasurer (1919)
    The Middle Temple Murder (1919)
    The Talleyrand Maxim (1919)
    Scarhaven Keep (1920)
    The Herapath Property (1920)
    The Lost Mr. Linthwaite (1920)
    The Orange-Yellow Diamond (1920)
    The Markenmore Mystery (1921)
    The Root of All Evil (1921)
    Wrychester Paradise (1921)
    In the Mayor's Parlour (1922)
    Ravensdene Court (1922)
    The Middle of Things (1922)
    The Million Dollar Diamond (1923)
    The Charing Cross Mystery (1923)
    The Mazaroff Murder (1923)
    The Kang-He Vase (1924)
    The Safety Pin (1924)
    Sea Fog (1925)
    The Bedford Row Mystery (1925)
    The Cartwright Gardens Murder (1925)
    The Mill of Many Windows (1925)
    The Passenger to Folkestone (1927)
    Dead Men's Money (1928)
    The Ransom for London (1929)
    Murder at Wrides Park (1931)
    Murder in Four Degrees (1931)
    Murder of the Ninth Baronet (1932)
    Murder in the Squire's Pew (1932)
    The Borgia Cabinet (1932)
    The Solution of a Mystery (1932)