Old Sleuth, the Detective

by Harlan Page Halsey

During the craze for cheap crime fiction in the late nineteenth century, Harlan Page Halsey wrote more than a hundred potboilers as Old Sleuth, a brilliant and gentlemanly master of disguise. The first begins on the beaches of Bay Ridge, with a corpse discovered in the ropes of a rowboat. The detective conducts intertwining investigations into this death, a burglary on Wall Street and the abduction of a young singer that take him from the financial and theater districts of Manhattan to a rural village on Staten Island, doggedly pursuing what really happened one moonless night outside a tavern on Shore Road.

First published January 1, 2014

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[Cathy]

According to the Haycraft-Queen list, the first Dime Novel detective story.

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: he first appeared in 1872 in the Fireside Companion. The Old Sleuth is a disguised young man. Here he finds a missing woman.