The Bradys’ Chinese Mystery by A New York Detective
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ePublished by
May 2024
Originally published September 1, 1905
Nickel weekly
Author: A New York Detective
ePublished by
May 2024
Originally published September 1, 1905
Nickel weekly
Author: A New York Detective
A nickel weekly originally published September 1, 1905, number 345 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’ Chinese Mystery; or, Called by the “King” of Mott Street actually has the Bradys working for a powerful New York member of a Chinese gang, who hires them to find a woman he paid to have smuggled into the city by her brother—a woman from China he intends to marry if she can ever be found.
The mystery of her disappearance is the Bradys’ Chinese Mystery.
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.
The mystery of her disappearance is the Bradys’ Chinese Mystery.
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.