His obsession with crime led him to found a police squad known as the Bow Street Runners, who ultimately foiled the Cato Street Conspiracy, and one of his novels concerns a criminal's quest to send his friend Heartfree to the gallows.  
One of his plays, subtitled "Or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd," is an adaptation of Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, while in another Valentine and Wilding vie for the hand of Bellaria, who eventually marries Veromil.  His obsession with crime led him to found a police squad known as the Bow Street Runners, who ultimately foiled the Cato Street Conspiracy, and one of his novels concerns a criminal's quest to send his friend Heartfree to the gallows.  A notable short work concerns a young girl, called "creature" by her philandering husband, who constantly obsesses over her "vartue" and was the result of a feud with Samuel Richardson.  Better-known novels include one chronicling the adventures of the title son of Mr. Wilson and his friend, Abraham Adams, and a novel in which Sophia Western loves the title foster son of Squire Allworthy.  FTP name this author of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones.
One of his plays, subtitled "Or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd," is an adaptation of Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, while in another Valentine and Wilding vie for the hand of Bellaria, who eventually marries Veromil.  
Henry Fielding