Albert W. Aiken

An actor and playwright, Albert W. Aiken (1846 to 1894) also was a leading author in the popular press, beginning in the late 1860s. The two paths of his career continued loosely in parallel for the rest of his life. “The Joe Phenix Detective Series” was written from the late 1870s into the 1890s, chronicling the cases of a very early private detective. This was Historical Fiction written when it was just ... fiction!