Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 470

# Catalog Note

This 1886 Beadle and Adams weekly pulp publication features Felix Fox's Hunt for the Nabob: A Tale of New York and Its Man-Traps by T. C. Harbaugh, opening a serial mystery about a prominent Broad Street broker nicknamed "the Nabob" who has vanished three weeks prior. Seventeen-year-old Felix Fox, a boy detective known to New York police, is hired by Estelle, the Nabob's daughter, to investigate his disappearance after professional detectives prove unsuccessful. Estelle and the Nabob's partner Rogers Marxe offer a five-thousand-dollar reward. Felix accepts despite suspicions about Marxe. That same evening, a New Jersey man named Harris Hodge visits Felix with a separate case: valuable papers and a locket stolen from his mother's home two weeks earlier by their farmhand Benjamin Bloss. Hodge possesses a mysterious letter referencing a "Broad street find," possibly connecting to the Nabob case. Felix agrees to investigate both matters.