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Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 745

1893 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue features the opening installments of "The Doomed Syndicate" by Albert W. Aiken, author of the Joe Phenix detective series. The serial centers on Joe Phenix, a celebrated detective, and his partner Mignon Lawrence, a wealthy actress-detective with keen investigative talents. When they meet on Broadway near Madison Square, Mignon expresses frustration at lacking challenging work. Phenix reveals that a wealthy western mining speculator named Doffheimer, whom Mignon despises from her time acting in Colorado, has offered him a commission to arrange a marriage between them. Doffheimer claims to possess considerable wealth from mining speculation and declares his infatuation with Mignon, asserting he would pay generously for a match. Phenix declined the offer, and Doffheimer responded with anger and insults. The narrative suggests this encounter may precipitate the mystery that becomes "the doomed syndicate."

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