The Bradys and Captain Darke by A New York Detective
June 2019
A nickel weekly from 1907, this is number 418 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 Captain Darke; or, The Mystery of the China Liner sends the Bradys and their female partner Alice on a cross-Pacific steamer called the “Indian Queen” to solve the mystery of how gold and silver are being stolen from the liner’s treasure-room. As it turns out, their main suspect is a frequent passenger calling himself Captain Darke, who holds the secret of Alice’s mysterious past and the key to restoring her lost memories, and uses this knowledge as a bargaining chip.
At more than 26,000 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 26,000 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.