The Borough Treasurer

MP3 Audio CD. The Borough Treasurer comprises of these chapters: Blackmail; Crime--and Success; Murder; The Pine Wood; The Cord; The Mayor; Night Work; Retained for the Defence; Antecedents; The Hole in the Thatch; Christopher Pett; Parental Anxiety; The Anonymous Letter; The Sheet of Figures; One Thing Leads to Another; The Lonely Moor; The Medical Opinion; The Scrap Book; A Tall Man in Grey Clothes; At Bay; The Interrupted Flight; The Hand in the Darkness; Comfortable Captivity; Strict Business Lines; No Further Evidence; The Virtues of Suspicion; Mr. Wraythwaite of Wraye; Pages from the Past; Without Thought of Consequences; Cotherstone; and The Barrister's Fee.

Joseph Smith Fletcher was a British journalist and novelist. He created stories over 230 narratives on a broad array of subject matters, both fiction and non-fiction, and was among the highly distinguished British authors of mystery novels.

Joseph was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the son of a minister. His father departed his life when he was only eight months old, and soon after, his grandmother brought him up on a farm in Darrington, close to Pontefract. He studied at Silcoates School in Wakefield, and after he took up law, he became a journalist.

When he was 20 years old, Joseph started an employment in journalism, as a sub-editor in London. He consequently went back to his home land Yorkshire, where he wrote first on the Leeds Mercury under the fictitious name A Son of the Soil, and later as a special correspondent for the Yorkshire Post reporting on Edward VII's coronation in 1902.

Joseph?s first texts printed were verse. He afterwards took the next step in writing a number of master pieces of historical fiction and history, mostly about Yorkshire, which brought to his collection as a member of the Royal Historical Society.