Was made by Street and Smith's Big Detective Library,
The Old Broadbrim Weekly
It is the largest library of detective stories published, as well as the best. JOSIAH BROADBRIM, the Quaker detective, is a favorite all over the country. The stories are fascinating and exciting, and contain the true solutions of many of the great mysteries of crime that have never before been explained. Here are the numbers published so far:
LIST OF TITLES.
1. Old Broadbrim, The Quaker Detective;
or, Solving the Mad House Mystery.
2. Old Broadbrim Fighting a Clique of Crime;
or, The Detective's Ghost Ally.
3. Old Broadbrim In a Race for Life;
or, The Thirteen Days' Fight.
4. Old Broadbrim's Crimson Knot;
or, The Bats of Baltimore.
5. Old Broadbrim On a Perilous Quest;
or, Running a Band of Assassins to Earth.
6. Old Broadbrim Chasing the Bank Thieves;
or, A Brilliant Piece of Detective Work.
7. Old Broadbrim On a Water-Front Trail;
or, Breaking up a Dangerous Gang.
8. Old Broadbrim On an Ocean Chase;
or, The Diamond Smuggler's Great Invention.
9. Old Broadbrim Solving the Railway Mystery;
or, The Millionaire's Strange Death.
10. Old Broadbrim Finding the Millville Robbers;
or, The Miser of Great Wallingford.
11. Old Broadbrim After the Gold Brick Swindlers;
or, The Blacklock Bunco Gang.
12. Old Broadbrim Among the Thugs of Harlem;
or, Landing a Big Catch.
13. Old Broadbrim On a Strange Abduction Case;
or, The Tramping King of Ireland.
14. Old Broadbrim Fighting Western Desperadoes;
or, Playing the Counterfeit Game.
15. Old Broadbrim Forcing Their Hands;
or, The Panel Thieves of the Tenderloin.
16. Old Broadbrim On a Kidnapping Case;
or, The Search for a Young Heiress.
17. Old Broadbrim Destroying the Swamp Angels;
or, The Mysterious Crime of Gotham Court.
18. Old Broadbrim Up Against Grave Robbers;
or, The Tomb Hunters of Tavistock.
19. Old Broadbrim Seeking the Man in Black;
or, Miser Ben's School of Crime.
20. Old Broadbrim Untying a Tangled Knot;
or, One of the Queerest Cases on Record.
21. Old Broadbrim Baffling the Dark Terror;
or, The Crimes of the Red Hands of India.
22. Old Broadbrim Revealing a Double Life;
or, The Clew of the Blood-Stained Paper.
23. Old Broadbrim Keeping His Vow:
or, The Tangled Mystery of the Quaker City.
24. Old Broadbrim Trapping the Foxes;
or, The Crime of the Boathouse.
25. Old Broadbrim On the Trail of the Iron Frog;
or, Who Killed Percy Manson?
26. Old Broadbrim In Ticklish Places;
or, Hunting a Banker's Assassins.
27. Old Broadbrim Playing a Desperate Game;
or, The Mystery of the Red Dragon.
28. Old Broadbrim Playing a Master Stroke;
or, The Mystery of Pier No. 4.
29. Old Broadbrim Foiling a Fiend;
or, Game From Start to Finish.
30. Old Broadbrim On a Hot Chase;
or, The Bicycle Highwaymen of Coney Island.
31. Old Broadbrim Setting a Smart Trap;
or, Marked With a Double Cross.
32. Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia;
or, A Strange Bargain and its Consequences.
33. Old Broadbrim Doomed by an Invisible Hand;
or, The Victims of the Vial of Death.
34. Old Broadbrim in the Jaws of a Tigress;
or, A Fight Against Fearful Odds.
These stories may be purchased for Five Cents at any newsdealers, or from
STREET & SMITH, Publishers,
232-238 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
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Retained some inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. "deathtrap" vs. "death-trap").
Page 1, changed "commisssion" to "commission" ("a strange commission") and changed "Hargreaves" to "Hargraves" ("Hargraves and Irwin on the case").
Page 3, there appears to be an error in the phrase "It the same name," but this is reproduced here as printed since it is impossible to know whether the original intent was "it is" or "it's."
Page 5, changed "Tow" to "Tom" in "Tom Owens looked again."
Page 6, changed "day" to "way" in "woman led the way."
Page 11, added missing quote after "in a day or two."
Page 12, changed "placed" to "place" in "for which place the yacht sailed" and changed "statute" to "statue" in "statue-like figures."
Page 13, changed "quite" to "quit" in "quit the room."
Page 16, changed "leter" to "letter" ("letter post-haste") and "sudenly" to "suddenly" ("raised suddenly over her head"). Added missing quote before "Don't play spy too often."
Page 22, changed "sudenly" to "suddenly" ("pulled him suddenly").
Page 24, changed "faced" to "face" in "Jem's face paled." Changed "minutes" to "minute" in "Half a minute later." Changed "it" to "is" in "fellow is better paid."
Page 25, added missing "he" to "if he went out on a mission."
Page 26, changed "nawspaper" to "newspaper" ("newspaper containing").
Page 30, "gambling hells" is likely a typo but is reproduced as printed.