title: The Wedding-Chest Mystery: A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery
author: A. E. Fielding
description: The identity of the author is as much a mystery as the plots of the novels. Two dozen novels were published from 1924 to 1944 as by Archibald Fielding, A. E. Fielding, or Archibald E. Fielding, yet the only clue as to the real author is a comment by the American publishers, H.C. Kinsey Co. that A. E. Fielding was in reality a middle-aged English woman by the name of Dorothy Feilding whose peacetime address is Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, London, and who enjoys gardening. Research on the part of John Herrington has uncovered a person by that name living at 2 Sheffield Terrace from 1932-1936. She appears to have moved to Islington in 1937 after which she disappears. To complicate things, some have attributed the authorship to Lady Dorothy Mary Evelyn Moore nee Feilding (1889-1935), however, a grandson of Lady Dorothy denied any family knowledge of such authorship. The archivist at Collins, the British publisher, reports that any records of A. Fielding were presumably lost during WWII. Birthdates have been given variously as 1884, 1889, and 1900. Unless new information comes to light, it would appear that the real authorship must remain a mystery.
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  # Fielding
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Austin Dobson
  
  
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  PREFATORY NOTE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS—FIRST PLAYS.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. MORE PLAYS—MARRIAGE—THE LICENSING
  
  
  ACT.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE CHAMPION—JOSEPH ANDREWS.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE MISCELLANIES—JONATHAN WILD.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. TOM JONES.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. JUSTICE LIFE—AMELIA.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON.
  
  
  POSTSCRIPT.
  
  
  APPENDIX No I. FIELDING AND SARAH ANDREW.
  
  
  APPENDIX No. II. FIELDING AND MRS. HUSSEY.
  
  
  APPENDIX No. III. AMELIA'S ACCIDENT.
  
  
  APPENDIX No. IV. FIELDINGIANA.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  ### PREFATORY NOTE.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  From a critical point of view, the works of Fielding have received
  
  
  abundant examination at the hands of a long line of distinguished
  
  
  writers. Of these, the latest is by no means the least; and as M