The Bradys At The Helm by A New York Detective
November 2018
A nickel weekly from 1900, this is number 97 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 The Helm; or, The Mystery of the River Steamer has the New York sleuths investigating a mysterious series of robberies, involving murder and kidnapping, that are all happening on the same Hudson River steamer, a boat called the “Highland Glen.”
At more than 22,000 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 22,000 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.