The Bradys and the Swamp Rats by A New York Detective
February 2019
A nickel weekly from 1905, this is number 330 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 the Swamp Rats; or, After the Georgia Moonshiners has the Bradys entering the “Haylow swamp” in southeastern Georgia to break up a bootleg whisky business run by a gang of “swamp rats”—people who live in tight-knit family clans back in the swamps. Since the swamp-dwelling moonshiners lynched the previous Secret Service team sent after them, the Bradys are (of course) putting their lives at risk with this case.
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.