Sign of Fear: A Judge Peck Mystery

Judge Peck #3

by August Derleth

While on vacation, Judge Peck gets called in to help protect a man from threatening letters he had been receiving.

"With only a few quibbles I think Sign of Fear (1935) may be the best of the Judge Peck books. "-- Pretty Sinister Books

283 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1935

About the author

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cosmic Horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing

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Reviews

[Kathy B · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very clever mystery involving an old favorite character of mine (Judge Peck) and a local author (August Derleth). The story had many twists and turns that made it difficult to figure out!