Hulbert Footner

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2005
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Madam Storey, Private Investigator

  • The Fur Bringers

    The firm of Minot& Doane sat on the doorsill of its store on Lake Miwasa smoking its after-supper pipes....

  • The Woman from 'Outside'

    William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser R...

  • The Huntress

    From within the teepee of Charley Whitefish issued the sounds of a family brawl. It was of frequent occurrence in this teepee. Men at the doors of other lodges, engaged in cleaning their guns, or in other light occupations suitable to the manly digni...

  • Two on the Trail

    William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser R...

  • Thieves Wit

    William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser R...

  • Madame Storey's Way

    William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser R...

  • The Deaves Affair

    The story of a mysterious gang of blackmailers who pursue old Simon Deaves, a miser....

  • The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]



  • The Almost Perfect Murder

    A collection of crime fiction short stories featuring Madame Rosika Storey and her resourceful assistant Bella Brickley. Mme. Storey unravels complex cases with thorough investigation and an understanding of human nature....

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 1

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 2

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 3

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 4

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 5

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 6

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 7

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey: Volume 8

    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to pr...

  • The Murder That Had Everything!

    René Doria disappears just as he is to marry into wealthy society. Amos Lee Mappin is engaged by the hysterical bride-to-be, and soon stumbles into a murder case with puzzling ties to the past. There are plenty of clues and numerous suspects in this...



  • The Mystery of the Folded Paper

    Fin Corveth's friend Nick is robbed, and an emerald locket is stolen. Murder soon follows, and the only clue to motive is a folded piece of blank paper. Dark clouds are gathering and threaten to envelope Nick's young ward, Mariula. Fin brings in myst...

  • Who Killed the Husband?

    Jules Gartrey, a prominent banker, is killed in his apartment and the police have Al Yohe in their sights. Crime writer and occasional detective Amos Lee Mappin finds himself corralled into investigating by his staff and Yohe’s young bride. Mappin ...

  • The Death of a Celebrity

    At least five people wished Gavin Dordress, the playwright, dead the night of his ill-starred party. It was that night Gail Garrett and Bea Townley quarreled openly for the leading role in his new play-which no one had read. The next morning he was f...

  • The House with the Blue Door

    Sandra Cassells, a rich widow, has set up a home for ex-convicts, but her good intentions create a boiling cauldron of trouble, as passion, jealousy, and manipulation lead to murder. Amos Lee Mappin has no difficulty finding suspects and motives-and ...

  • Orchids to Murder

    Amos Lee Mappin is visited by the surly and self-centered Major Dunphy, dependent on his beautiful actress granddaughter, Mary Stannard. Mary has disappeared, and the detective soon discovers that she has stood up her wedding party. More than one man...

  • Unneutral Murder

    Criminologist Lee Mappin and assistant travel to Portugal during WWII to distribute a new secret code for the Allies and to help on the Underground Railroad smuggling freedom-loving Germans out of Nazi Germany. But the Gestapo has spies everywhere, a...

  • The Kidnapping of Madame Storey and Other Stories

    Hulbert Footner (1879"1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. About 1920, Footner began to write detective fiction, his first series detective character being Madame Rosika Storey. Footner's other series detective is Amos ...

  • The Nation's Missing Guest

    Sheik Ahmed bin Said arrives in the United States with his British bride-to-be and her overbearing mother, amid political machinations between France and Britain as they jostle for control of his country, Shihkar, and plotting by his devious stepbrot...

  • Death of a Saboteur

    Crime author and occasional detective Amos Lee Mappin has entered the war effort as an undercover investigator, trying to infiltrate a spy ring. A shooting doesn't help matters, and Mappin must scramble to maintain his cover while keeping the police ...

  • The Under Dogs

    "The pursuit by a super-woman detective, Madame Rosika Storey, of a strongly organized band of criminals whose speciality is jewel robbery on a gigantic scale. Rosika, in disguise, first has herself sent to prison, then is helped to escape by the org...



  • Anybody's Pearls

  • Dead Man's Hat

  • Husband Killer

  • The Velvet Hand

  • Underdogs

  • Thieves' Wit

    A pearl necklace of substantial value has been stolen, and a novice Confidential Agent has been called in to attempt to locate them. But there is more afoot than this. A villain seeks to thwart the romance of the owner of the necklace and her fiance ...

  • Madame Storey

  • Sinfully Rich

  • JACK CHANTY

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  • The OWL TAXI

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  • RAMSHACKLE HOUSE

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  • Ramshackle?House

    "Equal parts of Maryland, young lovers, and a murder mystery make this a literary julep. -- The Bookman, August 1923...

  • The Casual Murderer and Other Stories

    Madame Storey is one of the most interesting as well as one of the most original characters in detective fiction. Her profession, as she would prefer to put it, is solving other people’s problems. She is a friend to every troubled soul. She works t...

  • The Shanty Sled

    When a young woman decides to travel from New York to north-western Canada to see her mother, she never expects to have the adventure of a lifetime. She falls in love with a local trapper, but trouble rears its head when a rival fur trader decides he...

  • The Substitute Millionaire

  • The New Made Grave

    Weir lambert, a young man fresh from college, had acquired the proprietorship of the Kent County Witness, a small country newspaper that had almost ceased to circulate. Weir was proprietor, editor, compositor and printer, and yet had plenty of time t...

  • Taken for a Ride

    Dr. Portal brought a baffling case to Mme. Storey: Dr. Edgar McComb was found shot dead in his office. It attracted very little notice simply because there were no sensational circumstances. Now that a month has passed, it remained a mystery. The pol...

  • A Self-Made Thief

    “It’s a cinch to stick up a bank nowadays...!” boasted Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer. Goaded by his friends into making the attempt he just escapes capture due to the help of a beautiful and mysterious girl.A strange and inesc...

  • Tortuous Trails

    Police work in the vast spaces of Canada’s North-West has a fascination of its own. There is a glamour about the Mountieswhich never grows dim, and the four stories included in this book feature the ingenious and exciting tales of the adventures of...

  • Officer!

    What does a police officer think about while he's on his beat? Hulbert Footner's Officer! not only tells you the necessary thoughts but gives you the necessary actions in this romantic mystery told with humor and kept in suspense....



  • CAP'N SUE

    Rum-runners and river pirates make a dangerous combination in Hulbert Footner's suspense-filled novel. Rich with adventure and romance, it's one of mystery author Hulbert Footner's most exciting yarns....

  • Kidnapping Madame Storey

  • Putting Crime Over

    "In the middle of the day!" I remember him saying. "With crowds passing in the street, these fellows go boldly into your jewelry shops, and point their guns, and take what they please, and get away scot-free! Such a thing would be impossible in Londo...

  • The Complete Madame Storey Mysteries

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  • Easy to Kill

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    Mme. Storey drove her own car up to Newport. According to instructions, we left it standing at the front door of the Van Tassel mansion, and made our way by a path around to the rear. This was to avoid coming in contact with the house servants....

  • The Sealed Valley

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    If you want a brisk tale of adventures, in which leading parts are played by a hidden, almost inaccessible, valley, a remnant of a once-powerful tribe of Indians and a gold mine of fabulous value, then you will find something pretty much to your tast...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hulbert Footner has published 55 books.

Hulbert Footner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Putting Crime Over, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Hulbert Footner, Madam Storey, Private Investigator, was published in October 2005.

No. Hulbert Footner does not write books in series.
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