The Bradys and “Mr. Mormon” by A New York Detective
March 2018
A nickel weekly from 1920, The Bradys and “Mr. Mormon;” or, Secret Work in Salt Lake City is number 1,135 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 “Mr. Mormon” takes place in Utah, primarily in Salt Lake City, as the two famous New York detectives are asked by a U.S. senator from New York to help an apostate Mormon track down and rescue his daughter from an unscrupulous polygamist elder in the Church of Latter Day Saints.
At more than 21,000 words, this is a novella-sized work of pulp fiction that gives the reader a taste of what the masses were reading in the late 19th and early 20th century time period.
At more than 21,000 words, this is a novella-sized work of pulp fiction that gives the reader a taste of what the masses were reading in the late 19th and early 20th century time period.