The Bradys and the Boatmen by A New York Detective
January 2019
A nickel weekly from 1902, this is number 164 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 the Boatmen; or, The Clew Found in the River features the Bradys trying to solve a murder which they stumble across one night when they come to the aid of a policeman walking his beat. At the behest of the beat cop, they chase after a mysterious masked man carrying the severed hand of a woman. When the man throws the hand into the river and disappears under the docks, the Bradys, in solving the mystery, find themselves at odds with a gang of river thieves.
At more than 24,000 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.
At more than 24,000 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.