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Arthur J. Rees


Born
in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
September 23, 1872

Died
November 22, 1942

Genre
Mystery, Fiction


Arthur John Rees 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 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.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 870 ratings · 101 reviews · 90 distinct works • Similar authors
The Hampstead Mystery
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3.54 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1916 — 91 editions
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The Mystery of the Downs (T...
3.69 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1918 — 48 editions
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The Shrieking Pit
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The Hand in the Dark
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The Moon Rock
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