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A Successful Shadow; Or, A Detective's Successful Quest

by Old Sleuth

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Harlan Page Halsey (1837-1898), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Doesticks Junior, Old Sleuth and Judson R. Taylor, was an American author. He was the creator of the Detective Old Sleuth, who appeared in detective serials and dime novels throughout the late nineteenth-century. His works Annie Wallace; or, The Exile of Penang (1857), Something to Wear and Some Other Things (1857), The Bankers, Their Vaults and the Robbers (1873), Old Sleuth, the Detective (1874), Macon The Southern Detective (1881? ), Phil The Indian Detective (1882), The Confessions of an Imp (1887), Gipsy The Western Detec...

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