# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-e-preston-muddock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:05:37.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-e-preston-muddock"
name: "J. E. Preston Muddock"
slug: "j-e-preston-muddock"
description: "James Edward Preston Muddock, also known as Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock and Dick Donovan, was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories."
tagline: "British writer (1843–1934)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1843-05-28"
deathDate: "1934-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.84
  momentum:             0.07326007326007326
  historical:           3.943233333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D8%A7%D9%89._%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "جيه. اى. پريستون مودوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._Preston_Muddock"
    title: "J. E. Preston Muddock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Emmerson_Preston_Muddock"
    title: "Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Престон Маддок, Джеймс Эдуард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4377487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump