Mark Davison published The mystery of Dorking's link to crime author more prolific than...

An element of mystery surrounds an enquiry from a Yesteryear reader asking if any light could be shed on the Dorking links to a prolific detective story writer who died more than 80 years ago.Yesteryear was told by reader Michael Lawrence that Joseph Smith Fletcher was a major writer in the golden age of detective fiction, "thus a contemporary of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Margery Allingham and so on".Mr Lawrence said: "There was, however, one big difference –...

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