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Secret Service Series No. 24 [1889-10] ("The Prairie Detective" by Leander P. Richardson)
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Secret Service Series No. 24 [1889-10] ("The Prairie Detective" by Leander P. Richardson).

Dime novel.

New York detective "Sycamore Dan" Burdette is assigned by the United Secret Service to track down a gang of counterfeiters and outlaws, lead by the notorious criminal "Persimmon Bill" Creighton, who are operating in the Western territories.

From THE DIME NOVEL COMPANION: A SOURCE BOOK by J. Randolph Cox (Greenwood Press, 2000):

RICHARDSON, LEANDER PEASE (Feb. 28, 1856-Feb. 2, 1918) Journalist, playwright, and writer of stories for *Street & Smith's *Buffalo Bill Stories, *Diamond Dick Library, *Log Cabin Library, *New York Weekly, *Nugget Library, some of which were reprinted in *Magnet Library and *Secret Service Series. Wrote for Chicago Inter-Ocean, edited Dramatic News, and worked at New York Morning Telegraph and other papers. Among his novels is "The Prairie Detective," 24-SSS, Oct. 1889.

SECRET SERVICE SERIES *Street & Smith, Nos. 1-61; Nov. 1887-Nov. 1892. Monthly publication. Size: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, 190 to 250 pages. Price: 25 cents. Single color pictorial covers. Occasional black and white interior illustrations. Authors include *Nick Carter, *John R. Coryell, *Emile Gaboriau, *Harlan Page Halsey, and *Old Sleuth. Primarily detective stories reprinted from *New York Weekly serials. The nine Nick Carter titles are first appearances in book form of material previously published in the New York Weekly and the *Nick Carter Library.


Subjects: Dime Novels; Mystery; Detective; Crime Stories; Westerns; Western Stories; Counterfeiting; United States Secret Service; Kansas; Missouri; Leander P. Richardson
Language English
Publication date October 1889
publication_date QS:P577,+1889-10-00T00:00:00Z/10
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