The Admirable Tinker: Enriched edition. Child of the World

by Edgar Jepson

'The Admirable Tinker' is an adventure novel penned by Edgar Jepson. The story begins by introducing us to Lord Crosland and Sir Tancred Beauleigh, who are friends, but haven't seen each other in three years. They coincidentally arrive at the same hotel and find out they both rented the same room. They discuss the possibility of sharing the room for the season, and Sir Tancred reveals that he has a son somewhere and he intends to find him. He also mentions that he was married to a woman named Pamela Vane, but they were forced to get divorced.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1904

About the author

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating at times with John Gawsworth, Hugh Clevely and possibly Arthur Machen, long-term friends.

He was editor for a short period of Vanity Fair magazine, where he employed Richard Middleton, and did much to preserve the latter's memory. He was also a translator, notably of the Arsène Lupin stories of Maurice Leblanc.

He was a member of the Square Club (from 1908) of established Edwardian authors, and also one of the more senior of the New Bohemians drinking club.

As a literary dynasty: his son Selwyn Jepson was known as a crime writer; his daughter Margaret (married name Birkinshaw) published novels as Margaret Jepson (including Via Panama) and as Pearl Bellairs; and Margaret's daughter Franklin is the writer Fay Weldon. The Jepson domestic arrangements are commented on second-hand in Weldon's autobiographical writing.

Jepson was friends with the English mystery writer Hugh Clevely and even shared the same pseudonym "Tod Claymore." They co-wrote the novel "The Man With the Amber Eyes."