The Bradys Among The Chinamen by A New York Detective
Price: $1.25
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February 2025
Originally published February 1, 1901
Nickel weekly
Author: A New York Detective
ePublished by
February 2025
Originally published February 1, 1901
Nickel weekly
Author: A New York Detective
A nickel weekly originally published February 1, 1901, number 106 in the popular “Secret Service” series featuring “Old and Young King Brady, Detectives” which started January 27, 1899, and came out like clockwork every Friday for more than two decades—by which time well more than a thousand issues had been published—The Bradys Among The Chinamen; or, The Yellow Fiends of the Opium Joints has the Bradys accidentally coming across a human head (not the last time this will happen: see issue 1,183, The Bradys and the Floating Head) which coincidentally ties them into another case the Secret Service is investigating.
Eventually the Bradys end up taking on a mob of Chinese gangsters who operate opium joints around the city of New York, although (spoiler alert) the ultimate villain behind the severed head is not Chinese at all.
At more than 26,000 words, this novella-sized work of pulp fiction, besides being an interesting and fun read, gives the reader a taste of what the masses were reading in the late 19th and early 20th century time period.
Eventually the Bradys end up taking on a mob of Chinese gangsters who operate opium joints around the city of New York, although (spoiler alert) the ultimate villain behind the severed head is not Chinese at all.
At more than 26,000 words, this novella-sized work of pulp fiction, besides being an interesting and fun read, gives the reader a taste of what the masses were reading in the late 19th and early 20th century time period.