Hawkshaw, the Detective, Escaped from Sing Sing

Hawkshaw, the Detective, Escaped from Sing Sing

Chicago

M. A. Donohue & Co.

undated

Iconic Sherlockian items in a non-Sherlockian book cover

Escaped from Sing Sing is one of many Donohues on my shelves with a Sherlockian look but nothing Sherlockian inside. The cover illustration, closely resembling the detective drawn by Frederic Dorr Steele, was used on many non-Sherlockian books in the Flashlight series including The Chinese Juggler, Tracked by a Woman, The Swamps of Death, Neverfail or The Kentucky Ranger, and others, likely as a cost-saving measure by the publisher. Conan Doyle actually visited Sing Sing during his 1914 lecture tour.

The Flashlight Detective Series, No. 61