Bertram Fletcher Robinson
Author, Journalist and Sportsman (1870-1907) · Writers · Died at 36
Bertram Fletcher Robinson was an English sportsman, barrister, journalist, editor, author and Liberal Unionist Party activist. During his life-time, he wrote at least three hundred items, including a series of short stories that feature a detective called 'Addington Peace'.
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Title page of Rugby Football (1896)![Robinson's handwritten inscription in a first book edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), which he presented to his friend's wife[35]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/BFR_Book_dedication.jpg/500px-BFR_Book_dedication.jpg)
Robinson's handwritten inscription in a first book edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), which he presented to his friend's wife[35]
Book cover of The Trail of the Dead (1904)
Contents page for Great Short Stories Volume 1: Detective Stories (1906)
Robinson was employed by Lord Northcliffe until shortly before his death
Robinson's grave at St. Andrew's Church, Ipplepen
Queen's Quorum (Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1953)About this person
Following his untimely death at the age of just 36 years, speculation grew that Robinson was the victim of a curse bestowed upon him by an Egyptian antiquity at the British Museum, which he had researched whilst working as a journalist for a British newspaper. However, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his literary collaborations with his friends and fellow Crimes Club members, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse and Max Pemberton.