The Shadow of the Dead Hand

Fred M. White, whose full name was Frederick Merrick White, was a prolific British writer born on December 9, 1859, in West Bromwich, a significant industrial town in the Sandwell metropolitan county of the West Midlands, England. White's literary career spanned the late Victorian era through the Edwardian period, well into the 20th century, leaving an indelible mark on the genres of mystery, adve...