I have recently read the American story of NICK CARTER, written shortly after first publishing of Sherlock Holmes. This dime novel parrot plagerizes the stories of our great hero Holmes, and is a weak copy at that. The hero is reminicent of Holmes and so are the plots of his detective adventures. I cannot believe this dime novel was so popular here in America when a far superior version was existing; possibly Americans were not recieving copies of Holmes at the time? I am very curious to how the writers of Nick Carter got away with his existence and how his readers could explain their interest in such a 2 Dimensional charater and plot progression. Horrible, Awful! It is interesting to see how quickly these detective stories popped up after Holmes and that they were so popular.