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Hulbert Footner

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Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of detective fiction.

Born William Hulbert Footner in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, he travelled to New York in 1898. In the United States, he attempted an acting career, which he eventually gave up on. His first written article, an account of a canoe trip from Greenwich Village to Albany on the Hudson River, appeared in Field & Stream in 1904. The next year, with a freelance assignment from a New York paper, Footner took the first of two long voyages by canoe, hundreds of miles through Alberta and the Northwest Territories, sending back his dispatches to New York and to several Canadian papers. Those adventures, also, resulted in his first full length book, New Rivers of the North, followed by several adventure novels set in northwest Canada. A few years later he arrived in Maryland in his canoe and eventually settled there permanently in an old house on the Patuxent River.

In his lifetime, he had more than fifty novels published including a series of detective stories in the 1920s featuring a liberated female detective named Madame Rosika Storey.

Several of his books were adapted to the screen and Footner also wrote several plays, a couple of which reached Broadway. At the end of his writing career he wrote a half a dozen books about Maryland.

Footner's other series detective is Amos Lee Mappin, a successful, middle aged mystery writer whose crimes tend to occur in New York's cafe society. Mappin is unusual in that his "Watson" (at least in some of his tales) is a young woman, his secretary Fanny Parran. She is one of the few female "Watsons" in fiction, an example of how female-oriented Footner's fiction is.

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