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Beadle's Dime Library No. 824

1894 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of a New York pulp weekly (No. 824, Wednesday, August 8, 1894) features "Dan Dunn's Right Hand Man" by Joseph E. Badger Jr. The serial opens with a dramatic prison escape attempt. A convict scaling the penitentiary wall using a rope is spotted by a guard during a lightning flash and shot; the alarm bell sounds across the facility. In Chapter II, the narrative shifts to a train traveling from Hermann to Jefferson City, Missouri, where detective Dan Dunn encounters Mrs. Harriet Haylock—a beautiful blonde woman he had previously exposed as "Harlequin Hat," a fraud perpetrator identified by a distinctive birthmark on her ear. She had served time at the State Penitentiary. Their tense reunion aboard the train suggests complicated history between them.

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