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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Milton Danvers

Author: Milton Danvers (birth and death dates unknown)

Alternate Name(s): (pseudonym)

Biography: This author cannot be traced. Tellingly, the story "A Fateful Mirror" by "Mrs. Milton Danvers" appeared in Diprose's Annual (1892). Hubin identifies the author as "probably that of the clergyman James Edmond Long, ca. 1847–1925" though without any certain evidence.

Fiction Titles:

  1. The Doctor's Crime: or, Simply Horrible!.  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1891.
  2. A Desperate Dilemma: or, An Unheard of Crime.  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1892.
  3. The Grantham Mystery: or, Confidence and Crime.  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1893.
  4. The Detective's Honeymoon: or, The Doctor of the "Pinjarrah".  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1894.
  5. The Mysterious Disappearance of a Bride: or, Who Was She?.  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1895.
  6. The Fat Finger Mark: Rose Courtennay's First Case.  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1895.
  7. The "Lone Cross Manor" Mystery: or, Hugh Darrill's Confession.  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1896.
  8. The Squire's Fatal Will: or Twenty Years of Plot and Crime.  1 vol.  London: Diprose, 1897.