Frank Lucius Packard was a Canadian

Canada

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 novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

 for the Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels

Mystery fiction

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, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale

Jimmie Dale

Jimmie Dale is a fictional character created by Frank L. Packard in 1914. He was a wealthy playboy by day, but at night put on a costume and became The Gray Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest, but...

.

Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec

Lachine, Quebec

Lachine was a city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is now a borough within the city of Montreal.-History:...

 and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery

Mount Royal Cemetery

Opened in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165-acre terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger adjacent Roman Catholic cemetery -- Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges...

 in Montreal.

Jimmie Dale series

• The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) - (Project Gutenberg
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   book)
• The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) - (Project Gutenberg
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• Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (1922)
• Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder (1930)
• Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour (1935)
• Return of the Grey Seal (2007) - (e-book
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   compilation of first two books)

Other works

• Coogan's Last Run
• The Miracle Man (1914) - (Project Gutenberg
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   book)
• The Sin That Was His (1917)
• The Wire Devils (1918)
• From Now On (1919)
• The Night Operator (1919)
• The White Moll (1920) - (Project Gutenberg
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  book)
• Pawned (1921)
• Doors of the Night (1922)
• The Four Stragglers (1923)
• The Locked Book (1924)
• Running Special (1925)
• Broken Waters (1925)
• The Red Ledger (1926)
• The Devil's Mantle (1927)
• Two Stolen Idols (1927)
• Shanghai Jim (1928)
• The Big Shot (1929)
• Tiger Claws (1929)
• Gold Skull Murders (1931)
• The Hidden Door (1933)
• The Purple Ball (1933)
• The Dragon's Jaws (1937)
• More Knaves Than One (1938)

External links

• Sony Reader e-book version of Return of The Grey Seal