The Opium King by A New York Detective
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January 2022
Originally published June 30, 1899
Nickel weekly
Author: A New York Detective
ePublished by
January 2022
Originally published June 30, 1899
Nickel weekly
Author: A New York Detective
Number 23 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 Opium King; or, The Bradys’ Great Chinatown Case has the Bradys trying to solve a string of jewel thefts from traveling salesmen representing the various jewel merchants of New York, which are traced back to a pair of opium den operators in New York’s Chinatown.
At more than 27,000 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 27,000 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.