Day: April 10, 2014

Front facade of Houghton Library

Ghost Detective

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. There are many spin-offs of Sherlock Holmes, and some excellent ones from the early 20th century are Jean Ray’s Harry Dickson, le Sherlock Holmes Americain.   This series of pulp dime-novel’s originally started in Germany 1907 and continued until…