Project Gutenberg 2005-10-23 Public domain in the USA. 71 Doughty, Francis Worcester 1850 1917 New York detective The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler; Or, Working for the Custom House Reading ease score: 84.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Starner, Sigal Alon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler; Or, Working for the Custom House" by Doughty is a detective novel written in the late 19th century. The story follows Old King Brady and his apprentice, Young King Brady, as they work to uncover a smuggling operation involving precious stones at the Custom House in New York. The narrative introduces the tension between the skilled Bradys and the smugglers, with elements of intrigue and deception as they attempt to apprehend the culprits. At the start of the story, we witness the Bradys being assigned to crack down on a smuggling ring that the regular inspectors have failed to expose. They quickly encounter Paul La Croix, a cunning smuggler, and his daughter Clara, who is involved in the schemes. As the Bradys devise a strategy to uncover the smuggling operation, they display their keen skills and determination, setting the stage for a suspenseful cat-and-mouse chase. The opening chapters establish a compelling premise, as the Bradys navigate through challenges and rivalries within the Custom House, all while uncovering surprising twists related to the characters involved in the smuggling ring. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Mystery and detective stories Dime novels American fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 186416 186418 2024-10-07T13:00:29.341940 2023-09-08T03:55:40.338964 text/html text/html 187196 2020-12-12T18:53:17 text/html; charset=us-ascii 338217 2020-12-12T18:53:17 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 446174 2024-10-07T13:00:38.397924 application/epub+zip 447897 2024-10-07T13:00:33.407946 application/epub+zip 139193 2024-10-07T13:00:31.711953 application/epub+zip 876512 2024-10-07T13:00:41.706899 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 857348 2024-10-07T13:00:37.158925 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 186891 2022-09-08T08:17:29.702469 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 165771 165673 2024-10-07T13:00:28.314971 2023-09-08T03:55:39.487953 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 165581 2020-12-12T18:53:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 61833 2020-12-12T18:53:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20077 2024-10-07T13:00:41.847098 application/rdf+xml 24434 2024-10-07T13:00:32.280930 image/jpeg 4474 2024-10-07T13:00:31.997951 image/jpeg 440830 2024-10-07T13:00:29.364980 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia