A Case in Camera

by Oliver Onions

Overview

Later in his career, the novelist who worked under the pen name Oliver Onions turned his focus to ghost stories and tales of the supernatural. However, his early work spanned a number of genres, including historical fiction, science fiction, and detective fiction. A Case in Camera delves deeply into a puzzling murder, and it's sure to please readers who appreciate well-written mysteries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776531332
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	02/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	416 KB

About the Author

Oliver Onions (1873–1961) was a distinguished British novelist and short story writer, widely recognized as one of the most original and versatile literary figures of the early twentieth century. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Onions came of age during a period of immense cultural and artistic transformation, and his career reflects a keen responsiveness to the evolving concerns of literature in the modern era. Trained initially in art at the National Arts Training School in South Kensington, he brought to his writing a painter’s sensitivity to texture, atmosphere, and the nuances of light and shadow. This visual awareness became a hallmark of his prose, enabling him to craft narratives of extraordinary psychological depth and descriptive power.

Onions achieved lasting acclaim for his mastery of psychological fiction and his subtle innovations in narrative style. While best known for his contributions to supernatural literature—most notably the much-anthologized tale The Beckoning Fair One—his wider body of work demonstrates an equal command of realism, modernist experimentation, and acute social observation. His novels, including A Case in Camera, reveal his gift for combining intellectual rigor with profound emotional resonance, offering readers narratives that are as thought-provoking as they are compelling.

Throughout his long career, Onions published prolifically under both his own name and the pseudonym George Oliver. His works consistently explored themes of perception, identity, and the tension between inner consciousness and external reality, situating him alongside contemporaries such as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford in the realm of psychologically sophisticated prose. Although never confined to one genre, his writings left a defining mark on ghost stories, modernist fiction, and the early psychological novel, influencing subsequent generations of writers.