Title
A Study in Scarlet
Coverage
Chicago and New York
Publisher
M. A. Donohue & Co.
Date
undated
Description
The covers of the popular Flashlight Detective Series had a crime-fighting motif. The design with the Gillette-like figure is the most Sherlockian of my Flashlight books, showing the detective in profile, smoke curling from a curved pipe, elaborate dressing gown, and an ominous scene glimpsed through a magnifying glass. The figures on the other two covers couldn’t be less Sherlockian: a masked man brandishing twin pistols and an oddly dressed sleuth with fur-trimmed coat, red gloves, and gleaming top hat. Note that the “slugs” with the series name, number, book title, and author are identical in these two books, another money-saving tactic common among the pirate publishers.
Source
The Flashlight Detective Series, No. 47