Jeffery Farnol

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1907
  • Latest Book:
    March 2014
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About the Author

John Jeffery Farnol was born in Aston, Birmingham, England, UK, son of Kate Jeffery and Henry John Farnol, a factory-employed brass-founded. The marriage were to have three more children, two boys and a girl. He brought up in London and Kent. He attended the Westminster Art School, after he had lost his job in a Birmingham metal-working firm. In 1900, he married Blanche Wilhelmina Victoria Hawley (1883-1955), the 16 years daughter of the noted New York scenic artist H. Hughson Hawley; they moved to the United States, where he found work as a scene painter. The marriage had a daughter, Gillian. He returned to England around 1910, and settled in Eastbourne, Sussex. In 1938, he divorced and remarried with Phyllis Mary Clarke on 20 May, and adopted her daugther, Charmian Jane. On 9 August 1952, he died after a long battle with cancer at 73 in Eastbourne.

He published his firt romance novel My Lady Caprice in 1907. The success of his early novels led Farnol to become a professional writer. He produced around 40 novels and volumes of stories, and some non-fiction and children's books. His last book was completed by his second wife Phyllis. Two of his early books, The Amateur Gentleman and The Broad Highway, have been issued in a version edited by mediatic romance novelist Barbara Cartland.

Full Series List in Order

The Broad Highway

1 - The Broad Highway (Jan-1910)
2 - The Way Beyond (Jan-1933)

Jasper Shrig

1 - The Amateur Gentleman (Jan-1913)
2 - Peregrine's Progress // Diana of the Dawn (Jan-1922)
3 - The Loring Mystery (Jan-1925)
4 - The High Adventure (Jul-1925)
5 - The Crooked Furrow (Jan-1938)
6 - Murder by Nail // Valley of Night (Jan-1942)
7 - Heritage Perilous (Jan-1947)
8 - The Ninth Earl (Jan-1950)
9 - The Waif of the River (Jan-1952)

Treasure & Vengeance

1 - Black Bartlemy's Treasure (Jan-1920)
2 - Martin Conisby's Vengeance (Jan-1921)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • My Lady Caprice // The Chronicles of the Imp

    I sat fishing. I had not caught anything, of course-I rarely do, nor am I fond of fishing in the very smallest degree, but I fished assiduously all the same, because circumstances demanded it. It had all come about through Lady Warburton, Lisbeth's m...

  • The Broad Highway

    The Broad Highway - 1

    This is Romance with a capital R. The Broad Highway has romantic language, passionate characters, and swashbuckling adventures on the open road. Classic characters include the hero and his lady, the Tinker, the Ancient, and Black George, the smith. F...

  • The Money Moon

    When Sylvia Marchmont went to Europe, George Bellew being, at the same time, desirous of testing his newest acquired yacht, followed her, and mutual friends in New York, Newport, and elsewhere, confidently awaited news of their engagement. Great, the...

  • Fortune's Fool

  • The Amateur Gentleman

    Jasper Shrig - 1

    This is a story of adventure, daring and love. And who could be more entrancing than the gloriously beautiful, proud, unpredictable heroine? But I lost my heart to handsome, brave, honest Barnabas. I know you too will adore the man who thought he had...

  • The Honourable Mr. Tawnish

    A fashionable London gentleman, Horatio Tawnish seeks the hand of the daughter of Sir John Chester, who has nothing but disdain for Mr. Tawnish. Tawnish must overcome his reputation as an effeminate dandy if he is to win the woman he loves....

  • Beltane the Smith

    A mighty man was Beltane the Smith, despite his youth already great of stature and comely of feature. Much knew he of woodcraft, of the growth of herb and tree and flower, of beast and bird, and how to tell each by its cry or song or flight; he knew ...

  • The Definite Object

    A Romance of New York...

  • Our Admirable Betty

    "The Major, mam, the Major has a truly wonderful 'ead!" said Sergeant Zebedee Tring as he stood, hammer in hand, very neat and precise from broad shoe buckles to smart curled wig that offset his square, bronzed face. "Head, Sergeant, head!" retorted...



  • Black Bartlemy's Treasure

    Treasure & Vengeance - 1

    Martine Conisby, Lord Wendover, enraged by his five years of slavery on a Spanish galleon escapes during a sea fight. He is rescued by an English ship. Lord Wendover is determined to avenge this wrong. He returns to England disguised as a tramp just ...

  • The Geste of Duke Jocelyn

    "Long, long ago when castles grim did frown, When massy wall and gate did ''fend each town; When mighty lords in armour bright were seen, And stealthy outlaws lurked amid the green And oft were hanged for poaching of the deer, Or, gasping, died upon ...

  • Martin Conisby's Vengeance

    Treasure & Vengeance - 2

    And now, nothing heeding my defenceless situation and the further horrors that might be mine aboard this accursed pirate ship, I nevertheless knew great content for that, with every plunge and roll of the vessel, I was so much the nearer Nombre de Di...

  • Peregrine's Progress // Diana of the Dawn

    Jasper Shrig - 2

    He who hath Imagination is blessed or cursed with a fearful magic whereby he may scale the heights of Heaven or plumb the deeps of Hell. "I went at a good, round pace, being determined to cover as much distance as possible ere dawn, since I felt a...

  • Sir John Dering

  • The Loring Mystery

    Jasper Shrig - 3

    The clock of St. Clement Danes was chiming the hour of eleven as Mr.Gillespie, folding up the brief which had engaged his attention all theevening, yawned, drained the last of his toddy and rose to betakehimself to bed; indeed he had just taken up hi...

  • The High Adventure

    Jasper Shrig - 4

  • The Quest of Youth

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    This time the reader is thrilled with the story of Sir Marmaduke Vane-Temperly, who, a weary man of the world, goes fourth to seek his vanished youth. Of the many adventures that befall him, a mysterious murder, is but one. Again the author, with a m...

  • Gyfford of Weare

    Sir Richard Guyfford of Weare is accused of the murder of his double-dealing cousin....

  • Another Day

    This narrative should begin with the death-sob of Red Rory as the murderous bullet smote him from life; it should continue with the sick awaking of young Keith, Dallas, Chisholm in a certain evil haunt of Hell's Kitchen, New York City, to find himsel...



  • Black Coffee

    in The Shadow and Other Stories

  • The Cupboard

    in The Shadow and Other Stories

  • The Great Quietude

    in The Shadow and Other Stories

  • The Shadow

    in The Shadow and Other Stories

  • Over the Hills

    A romance of the fifteen, being the narrative of Adam (called Thursday) with particulars of his adventures, his joys and sorrows, his friends and right-beloved enemy....

  • The Jade of Destiny

    The Captain gave his battered hat the true swashbuckling cock, cast his ragged cloak about him with superb, braggadocio flourish, clashed his rusty spurs and bowed....

  • Charmian, Lady Vibart

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

  • Voices from the Dust

    Being romances of old London and of that which never dies. The Good lives on eternally. Only the baser thing can die....

  • The Way Beyond

    The Broad Highway - 2

  • Winds of Chance // Winds of Fortune

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    This is an adventure story of pirates and kidnapping on the high seas and Spanish America. Narrated by Ursula Revell, 23 years of age, her hero is the Captain Japhet....



  • John o' the Green

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

  • A Pageant of Victory

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    This story opens in Virginia in 1774, at the moment when resentment at King George's treatment of the America Colonies and anger at Gaye's misguided high-handedness in Massachusetts and particularly in Boston, are blazing up to rebellion. George C...

  • The Crooked Furrow

    Jasper Shrig - 5

  • The Lonely Road

    In the lonely road, Mr. Jeffery Farnol tells a stirring tale of pursuits and escape in the troubled times following the breakdown of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. Jason Wayne fleeing from the red-coats, seeks refuge among the woodlands and valleys ...

  • Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer

  • Murder by Nail // Valley of Night

    Jasper Shrig - 6

    Being an episode in the career of Jasper Shrig of Bow Street with particulars of his highly original methods in the Wrybook case....

  • The King Liveth

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    A Romance of Alfred the Great based on the Old Chronicles....

  • Heritage Perilous

    Jasper Shrig - 7

  • My Lord of Wrybourne

    Being an account of his further perils, grief and joy....

  • The Ninth Earl

    Jasper Shrig - 8



  • The Glad Summer

    Being a truly sentimental idyll....

  • The Waif of the River

    Jasper Shrig - 9

  • Justice by Midnight

    Completed and Edited by Phyllis Farnol....

  • Great Britain at War

    In publishing these collected articles in book form (the result of my visits to Flanders, the battlefields of France and divers of the great munition centres), some of which have already appeared in the press both in England and America, I do so with...

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Jeffery Farnol has published 43 books.

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The first book by Jeffery Farnol, My Lady Caprice // The Chronicles of the Imp, was published in January 1907.

Yes. Jeffery Farnol has 3 series.
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