Emma Murdock Van Deventer

Around the turn of last century, a relatively well-known mystery writer named Lawrence L. Lynch had quite a few books published. Some of them were reprinted later as by Emma Murdoch Van Deventer. Lawrence L. Lynch may have been a pseudonym of Chicago socialite, Emma Murdock Van Deventer (1853 - 1914). Her name is sometimes spelled "Murdoch." She was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelist whose works appeared in the U.S. and Britain between 1870-1912. Born in Oswego, Illinois in 1853. She married Dr. A.E. Van Deventer in 1887. She died of a stroke in 1914.