The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Dodo Press Paperback 1406541524 9781406541526 Frank L. Packard

• Format: Paperback
• Author: Frank L. Packard
• ISBN10: 1406541524
• ISBN13: 9781406541526

Frank Lucius Packard 1877-1942 was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called 'Jimmie Dale'; who first appeared in the novel The Adventures of Jimmie Dale in 1917. He was a wealthy playboy by day, but at night put on a costume and became The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a grey seal behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything.