Borowitz Crime Ephemera: Board and Card Games collection

Finding Aid

Prepared by Cara Gilgenbach, June 4, 2004; Updated January 2008; Last Updated: February 2023
1 flat oversized box, 2 cubic feet, 11th and 12th floors

Scope and Content: This collection contains board and card games with crime-related themes. The items in this collection were donated by Albert and Helen Borowitz.

Related Material: See also the Borowitz Crime Ephemera: Jack the Ripper Collection for a Ripper-related board game.

Processing Note: Some of the games in this collection were cataloged in and are shelved with the LC-classified book collection. They are listed below, and their titles link to their full catalog records in KentLINK.

Box 1
Contents

1. The Dick Tracy Game. Menlo Park, California: University Games Corporation, Walt Disney Corporation, [1990].
   Scope and Content: Box text: "Help Dick Tracy solve crimes, capture the colorful cast of villains and save the city." Contents of game: game board; die; cards for Hideout Packet, Criminal, Crime & Weapon; moving pieces; weapon spinner, Dick Tracy Cards; Hideout Packets. Instructions included. UG 1240.
    
2. The Watergate Scandal: A game of cover-up and deception for the whole family. American Symbolic Corporation, 1973.
   Scope and Content: Card game related to the Watergate Scandal. Includes "Confidential Instructions."
    
3. Why: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Game. Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley, 1958.
   Scope and Content: Box text: "a fascinating game that requires REAL THINKING PLANNING and MEMORY." Contents of game: game board; 2 dice; 4 moving pieces; 60 cards. #4845.

Games Cataloged in the LC-Classified Book Collection

1. Consulting Detective. San Francisco: Sleuth Publications, c1981. 
   Scope and Content: Game related to Sherlock Holmes.
    
2. Hijacked-The Game That Apoofs Airline Heists; The Bad Guy Can Win, but It's Tough by John Brand. Bethlehem, Pa.: Valley Games, Inc., 1973.
   Scope and Content: Board game based on D. B. Cooper and other skyjackers.
    
3. Hangman. Robbinsdale, Minn.: W. H. Schaper Mfg. Co., 1950.
   Scope and Content: The classic spelling game.
    
4. The Capture of Mr. Raffles: New Parlor Game; If You Catch On, You Can Catch Him; Most Entertaining Game in Years. Chicago: Holt-Folger-Howard Co., undated, but between 1910 and 1930?
   Scope and Content: Game based on the fictitious character, gentleman burglar A.J. Raffles (and his accomplice, Bunny), who first appeared in stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law, Ernest William Hornung.
    
5. The Game Sherlock Holmes: Laughter and Excitement. Improved Edition. Salem, Mass: Parker Brothers Incorporated, 1904.