A New York Detective
Biography“A New York Detective” is the listed author for the Secret Service series of nickel weekly novellas featuring “Old and Young King Brady, Detectives” published by Frank Tousey in New York every Friday for more than two and a half decades, starting with the January 27, 1899 issue titled The Black Band; or, The Two King Bradys Against a Hard Gang.
The character Old King Brady was originally created for Tousey by author Francis Worcester Doughty in previous decades of the late 19th century, but it is unlikely that he wrote all or even the majority of the Secret Service series since even as prolific as he was rumored to be, one man producing a work of fiction every single week for more than a quarter of a century is unlikely. (Also, Doughty died in 1917, almost a decade before the series ended. No matter how prolific he was, he probably didn’t write novels after he was dead.)
It’s a doggone shame when people who created something worthwhile, something that will last essentially forever to be enjoyed by other people, are themselves forgotten and fade into anonymity. If anyone has more information about the authors behind the nom de plume “A New York Detective,” please contact us and share that information so we can, in turn, share it with the world.
Bibliography
(Much too lengthy to enumerate, more than a thousand novella-sized works of fiction in all.)
Other links
Wikipedia page about Francis Worcester Doughty