The Bradys at Coney Island by A New York Detective
November 2018
A nickel weekly from 1901, this is number 133 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 at Coney Island; or, Trapping the Sea-side Crooks has the New York sleuths chasing a gang of Coney Island “grafters” (con artists and other assorted crooks) led by a man named Peter Green who will stop at nothing, even murder, to place himself in line to inherit a fortune from a wealthy recently-deceased New York man.
At more than 25,000 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. This particular entry in the series is interesting for anyone familiar with Coney Island as it is today, because the comparison with how it was in 1901 is fascinating.
At more than 25,000 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. This particular entry in the series is interesting for anyone familiar with Coney Island as it is today, because the comparison with how it was in 1901 is fascinating.