Arthur J. Rees

Arthur John Rees (1872–1942), was an Australian mystery writer.

Born in Melbourne, he was for a short time on the staff of the Melbourne Age and later joined the staff of the New Zealand Herald.

In his early twenties he likely went to England.

His proficiency as a writer of crime-mystery stories is attested by Dorothy Sayers in the introduction to Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, 1928. Two of his stories were included in an American world-anthology of detective stories. Some of his works were translated into French and German.

Bibliography

Rees's 1925 novel The Threshold of Fear was reprinted in the March 1951 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries

Inspector Crewe novels

• The Hampstead Mystery (1916) [with John Reay Watson]
• The Mystery of the Downs (1918) [with John Reay Watson]

Grant Colwyn novels

• The Shrieking Pit (1919)
• The Hand in the Dark (1920)

Colwin Grey novels

• The Threshold of Fear (1925)
• Simon of Hangletree (1926)
• Greymarsh (1927)
• The Investigations of Colwin Grey (1932)

Chief Inspector Luckraft novels

• The Island of Destiny (1923)
• Simon of Hangletree (1926)
• The Pavilion by the Lake (1930)
• The Tragedy of Twelvetrees (1931)
• The River Mystery (1932)
• Aldringham's Last Chance (1933)
• The Single Clue (1940)

Others

• The Merry Marauders (1913)
• The Moon Rock (1922)
• The Cup of Silence (1924)
• Love Me Anise (1928)
• Old Sussex and Her Diarists (1929)
• The Brink (1931)
• Peak House (1933)
• The Flying Argosy (1934)

References

• E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature: A Bibliography to 1938, Extended to 1950. Edited by Frederick T. Macartney. (Angus and Roberson, Sydney 1956)

External links

• Works by Arthur John Rees at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Arthur J. Rees at Internet Archive
• Works by Arthur J. Rees at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)