Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 882

# Deadwood Dick, Jr., in Silver Pocket

This serial novel by Ed. L. Wheeler features the adventures of Deadwood Dick, Junior, a well-armed young gunslinger traveling through Arizona. When Dick encounters a rough miner named "Great Scott" on a narrow mountain trail, they narrowly avoid gunfight before Great Scott reveals he was sent to fetch Dick to the mining camp of Silver Pocket. There, Mayor Ted Talbot has summoned him to investigate a mysterious death: Henry Wilkinson, proprietor of the Silver Pocket Exchange banking house and gaming parlor Monte Carlo, has been found dead in his locked room with a bowie knife in his breast, his hand gripping the handle. The central mystery concerns whether Wilkinson committed suicide or was murdered—his doors were secured from inside, yet he had no known enemies and ample reason to live. The camp's citizens, all admirers of the cold and business-like gaming operator Fairy Frank, are baffled. Deadwood Dick begins his investigation, examining the scene and interviewing witnesses including the Express agent Pat Griffin.