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    Early Southern Detective Fiction

     

    [HALSEY, HARLAN PAGE.]. Macon Moore, the Southern Detective. By Judson R. Taylor (pseud.). New York: J.S. Ogilvie & Co., 25 Rose Street, [1881]. 1st ed. 12mo. 161 pp. 1 plate. Orig. cloth, a very nice copy. $350.00

     

    Wright III, 2412 (HEH only). Haycraft & Queen, Two Centuries of Cornerstones, records Halsey's Old Sleuth, the Detective (1885) as the first Dime Novel detective story. Macon Moore is described as the orphan son of a Confederate colonel, killed while commanding a Georgia regiment when the son was eleven years old.

 

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