Simon Wheeler, Detective

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The idea possibly reached paper even earlier, in late 1875 or early 1876, as a contribution to St. Nicholas, Scribner''s magazine for boys and girls, in the form of a skeleton plot to be filled out by the readers of the maga zine. On February 8 1876 Mary Mapes Dodge, editor of St. Nicholas.