The Bradys and “Kid Joaquin” by A New York Detective
May 2018
A nickel weekly from 1907, this is number 429 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 and “Kid Joaquin;” or, The Greasers of Robber’s Canyon has the Bradys travelling west to southern Arizona, and then down into Mexico after a cattle rustler who kidnapped a rancher’s daughter. In the course of their adventure they meet a headless horseman, find Montezuma’s lost treasure, confront Yaqui Indians, and survive a devastating earthquake.
At more than 25,000 words, this novella-sized work of pulp fiction gives the reader a taste of what the masses were reading in the late 19th and early 20th-century time period.
At more than 25,000 words, this novella-sized work of pulp fiction gives the reader a taste of what the masses were reading in the late 19th and early 20th-century time period.