Who Was Guilty? Two Dime Novels Pargeter His mother wrote and sold

His mother wrote and sold short stories

you'll remember his readings on the rather hilarious Harry S

the past fifty years have seen her fall into relative obscurity

who unlike aristocratic sleuths such as Lord Peter Wimsey and Albert Campion is earthy and occasionally (as editor John Cooper says in the introduction) outrageously cheeky

Who Was Guilty? Two Dime Novels Pargeter His mother wrote and soldTHE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITER !!! The dime novel was the first form of cheap fiction available to the American masses; between the 1870's and 1890's such dime novel detectives as Old Sleuth, Nick Carter, Old Cap Collier, Deadwood Dick and Lady Kate, The Dashing Female Detective thrilled millions of readers. One of the finest dime novelists was Philip Schuylar Warne, the first known person of African American descent to publish a mystery in